Computing Scale
date: label: date made
content: around 1920
name: label: maker
content: National Scale Company
notes: label: Description
content: This computing scale has a green finish and circular glass plate. A fan-shaped scale displays the weight (from 0 to 10 lbs.) on one side and the cost on the other. Raised letters (front and back) read “National / Store Specialty / LANCASTER, PA.”
label: Description
content: Organized in Bareville (Lancaster County), Pa., in 1908, the National Store Specialty Company produced the Pennsylvania Gas Pump (between 1914 and 1935) as well as the Pennsylvania Computing Scales. It is now the Pennsylvania Scale Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Lancaster
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of City of New York
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0514.18
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0514.18
label: accession number
content: 1983.0514
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 77.5 cm x 67.3 cm x 30.5 cm; 30 1/2 in x 26 1/2 in x 12 in
label: Measurements
content: overall; scale: 25 in x 25 1/2 in x 12 in; 63.5 cm x 64.77 cm x 30.48 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; mirror: 7/8 in x 13 5/8 in x 5 3/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 34.6075 cm x 14.605 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; frame: 1 3/8 in x 14 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in; 3.4925 cm x 35.8775 cm x 13.97 cm