Balance
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
name: label: maker
content: Kohlbusch, Herman
notes: label: Description
content: A small hanging brass balance fits into a rectangular wooden box marked “NO. 100 SURGEONS” and “NO. 100 SURGEONS” at one end, and “H. KOHLBUSCH / NEW YORK” at the other. Five of the original six weights remain. Kohlbusch termed this a “Surgeon’s Pocket Prescription Scales” and priced it at $12. His “Pocket Assay Scales” was similar, as was his “Improved Pocket and upright Diamond Scale Combined.”
label: Description
content: Herman Kohlbusch (1822-1903) was an immigrant from Saxony who was in the United States by 1850. He later boasted that he brought “great practical experience to bear, and an intimate knowledge of the wants of chemists, jewellers, druggists, and scientific men.” He supplied the government with scales, and won awards at the American Institute fairs of 1867, 1869, and 1874.
label: Description
content: Ref: <i>Illustrated New York. The Metropolis of Today</i> (New York, 1888), p. 147.
label: Description
content: Herman Kohlbusch, <i>Illustrated Price List</i> (New York, 1888), p. 14.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Pennsylvania
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.M-09312
label: accession number
content: 218383
label: catalog number
content: M-09312
objectType: label: Object Name
content: balance
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 6 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 3.4925 cm x 15.5575 cm x 6.985 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 9/16 in x 2 11/16 in x 6 1/8 in; 3.96875 cm x 6.82625 cm x 15.5575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 15.5575 cm x 6.985 cm x 3.81 cm