Balance
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1870
label: date made
content: 1867
name: label: patented by
content: Camp, Samuel R. P.
label: retailer
content: Morton & Bremmer
label: maker
content: Morton, Thomas
notes: label: Description
content: Spring scale marked “MORTON & BREMNER’S / SPRING BALANCE MADE / BY THOMAS MORTON / TO WEIGHT 30 W BY OUNCES” and “EACH 10 lb. IS MARKED ON THE SLIDE / THE INTERMEDIATE WEIGHTS ON THE CIRCLE” and “1867” and “WARRANTED.”
label: Description
content: Thomas Morton and Andrew Augustus Bremner, both of New York, began in business in 1841, making spring balances and weighing devices. Bremner left the firm in 1855; Morton was still in business in the 1870s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.308929
label: catalog number
content: 308929
label: patent number
content: 103,977
label: accession number
content: 89797
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Name
content: Spring Balance
label: Object Type
content: Patent Models
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: cloth tape: 55 mm; x 2 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: pointer: 47 mm; x 1 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: dial: 10.2 cm; x 4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30.5 cm x 11.4 cm x 3.8 cm; 12 in x 4 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in