Balance
date: label: date made
content: early twentieth century
name: label: maker
content: Troemner
notes: label: Description
content: The Army Prescription Balance was a simple and inexpensive brass instrument that fit into and stood on a wooden box. The form was available by 1880. In this example, the beam is 8 inches long, and marked “7”. The brass label on the box reads “HENRY TROEMNER / MAKER / PHILADELPHIA, PA. / CAP. ½ OZ. NO. 9 / MADE IN THE U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Troemner, <i>Price List of Fine Scales and Weights</i> (Philadelphia, 1889), p. 20.
label: Description
content: Joseph Price Remington, <i>The Practice of Pharmacy</i> (Philadelphia, 1891), pp. 50-51, fig. 6.
label: Description
content: Henry Heil, <i>Illustrated Catalogue and Price-list of Chemical Apparatus</i> (St. Louis, 1903), item 2660, p. 113.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Henry Troemner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-03087 [dup1]
label: catalog number
content: M-03087
label: accession number
content: 116033
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance, Portable Box
label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (beam material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (hangers, pan(2) material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pans(2) material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (column material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (box material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 11 in x 4 7/16 in; 6.985 cm x 27.94 cm x 11.27125 cm