Balance
date: label: date made
content: around 1960
name: label: maker
content: Ainsworth, William
notes: label: Description
content: Semi-micro balance in an aluminum frame with glass sides. There is a drawer on one side of the base. On the other is a keyboard mechanism for adjusting the riders which are used instead of weights. The rider apparatus is rhodium plated; most of the other metal parts are gold plated; the knife edges and planes are agate; the beam is an aluminum alloy. The inscription on the beam reads “Wm. Ainsworth & Sons, Inc. / Denver, Colo. / U.S.A.” The inscription on the ivory scale reads “WM Ainsworth & Sons, Inc. / Denver, Colo. Made in U.S.A. / TYPE TCY No. 42794.” Various tags read “Property U.S. Government / NASA / 502616” and “B. Preiser Co., Inc.” and “Solar Physics Brach / Space Sciences Div., Code 614 / Goddard Space Flight Center.”
label: Description
content: Ref: William Ainsworth & Sons, Inc. <i>Ainsworth Laboratory Balances and Weights</i> (Denver, 1956), p. 7.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Colorado, Denver
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Goddard Space Flight Center
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0664.02
label: accession number
content: 1988.0664
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0664.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45.6 cm x 25.4 cm x 48.4 cm; 17 15/16 in x 10 in x 19 1/16 in