Analytical Balance
date: label: date made
content: around 1897
name: label: maker
content: Sartorius
notes: label: Description
content: Florenz Sartorius, a precision mechanic at the University of Goettingen, began in business in 1870, and showed several short arm analytical balances with aluminum arms at the Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia in 1876. By the turn of the century, Sartorius balances were in wide use in the United States. This example came from Trinity College, a women’s school in Washington, D.C. The beam is 5.5 inches long. An inscription reads "Patent F. Sartorius Gottingen 6014."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Lower Saxony, Göttingen
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 Trinity College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.317415
label: catalog number
content: 317415
label: accession number
content: 230393
objectType: label: Object Name
content: analytical balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: beam: 5 1/2 in; 13.97 cm
label: Measurements
content: case: 19 in x 13 in x 19 1/2 in; 48.26 cm x 33.02 cm x 49.53 cm