Balance
date: label: date made
content: late nineteenth century
notes: label: Description
content: Rugged balance on a black iron base marked “WHITALL TATUM.” The firm termed this “No. 1 Robervahl (sic) Scales,” the reference being to Gilles Personne de Roberval, a French mathematician who introduced the basic form to the Academy of Sciences in Paris in 1669.
label: Description
content: Emerging from one of the first glass factories in the United States, Whitall Tatum & Co. began in business in 1857. It became Whitall Tatum Company in 1901. It may have sold this balance, but probably did not make it.
label: Description
content: Ref: Whitall Tatum Company, <i>Price List</i> (Philadelphia, 1910), p. 161.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: J. Stanley Falck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.M-09476
label: catalog number
content: M-09476
label: accession number
content: 232068
objectType: label: Object Name
content: balance
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 5/8 in x 12 1/2 in x 4 7/8 in; 16.8275 cm x 31.75 cm x 12.3825 cm