Balance
date: label: Date made
content: 19th century
label: Date made
content: 1800-1900
label: date made
content: mid-nineteenth century
name: label: maker
content: Breton
notes: label: Description
content: Balance with a 17-inch beam, 4.5-inch brass pans, columnar support, and square base marked “BRETON / À PARIS.” Louis and André Breton were brothers who studied with leading scientific instrument makers in Paris before opening their own instrument shop in 1836, and showing their wares at national and international exhibitions. E. Breton, of Paris, showed physics apparatus at the international exhibition of 1878.
label: Description
content: Ref: Breton Frères, <i>Catalogue et Prix des Instrumens de Physique, de Chimie, d’Optique, de Mathématique et d’Astronomie</i> (Paris, 1852).
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.328650
label: catalog number
content: 328650
label: accession number
content: 1993.0191
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 78.7 cm x 53 cm x 17.8 cm; 31 in x 20 7/8 in x 7 in
label: Measurements
content: column: 4.5 cm; x 1 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: each pan: 11 cm; x 4 5/16 in