Computing Scale
date: label: date made
content: 1920s
label: date made
content: around 1921
name: label: maker
content: Stimpson Computing Scale Company
notes: label: Description
content: This large counter balance has a gold finish, and fan-shaped scale at top. The word “STIMPSON” appears in large painted letters near the bottom. The commodity plate is round, white and porcelain, and placed to one side.
label: Description
content: Walter Franklin Stimpson (1870-1942) obtained a U.S. patent (#543,323) for a computing scale on July 23, 1895. This example was probably made by the Stimpson Computing Scale Co., in Louisville, Ky., in the 1920s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Kentucky, Louisville
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of City of New York
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0514.19
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0514.19
label: accession number
content: 1983.0514
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 75 cm x 87 cm x 41.2 cm; 29 1/2 in x 34 1/4 in x 16 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 1/2 in x 2505 in x 13 in; 69.85 cm x 6362.7 cm x 33.02 cm