Analytical Balance
name: label: maker
content: Oertling
notes: label: Description
content: Assay balance with a skeletal beam, a wood and glass frame, and an "Oertling London" inscription. Ludwig Oertling (1818-1893) was a German craftsman who moved to London in 1844, opened a shop in 1847, and soon became the leading balance maker in Britain. The last Oertling balance was manufactured in 1996.
label: Description
content: This balance came from Wheaton College, a school that is now co-ed, but that was founded as a female seminary in 1834.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
label: Subject
content: Women's History
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Wheaton College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.315227
label: catalog number
content: 315227
label: accession number
content: 218447
objectType: label: Object Name
content: analytical balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: case: 49.5 cm x 39 cm x 30.5 cm; 19 1/2 in x 15 3/8 in x 12 in
label: Measurements
content: beam: 153 mm; 6 in