Balance
date: label: date made
content: early nineteenth century
name: label: used by
content: Remsen, Ira
label: maker
content: Pollock, Allan
notes: label: Description
content: Analytical balance in a mahogany case with glass front and back, and drawer in the base. The “Pollock Boston Patent” inscription on the ivory scale refers to Allan Pollock, a Bostonian who received a U.S. patent for a balance, scale and beams, in 1815. A brief notice in the <i>American Journal of Science</i> 6 (1823): 371, states that Aaron (sic) Pollock was one of several Americans “advantageously known to the public as manufacturer of thermometers and of philosophical apparatus.”
label: Description
content: This was used in the laboratory of Ira Remsen (1846-1927), the first professor of chemistry at The Johns Hopkins University.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Johns Hopkins University Department of Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.315868.1
label: catalog number
content: 315868.1
label: accession number
content: 221777
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 53 cm x 59.5 cm x 24 cm; 20 7/8 in x 23 7/16 in x 9 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: pan 2: 28 mm x 130 mm; 1 1/8 in x 5 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: beam: 34 cm; 13 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: pan 1: 28 mm x 128 mm; 1 1/8 in x 5 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 5/8 in x 23 3/8 in x 9 3/4 in; 52.3875 cm x 59.3725 cm x 24.765 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: p7153: 32 in x 48 in x 40 in; 81.28 cm x 121.92 cm x 101.6 cm