Uneven Arm, Double Beam Scale
name: label: maker
content: Buffalo Scale Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is essentially a steelyard mounted on a stand. The inscriptions at top and bottom read “BUFFALO SCALE CO.” One side of the beam is graduated from 0 to 160, and inscribed “BUFFALO / SCALE CO. / U.S.A.” The firm referred to this as a Paper Scale with Stand, noting that it was designed for “determining the number of pounds to the ream by the weight of one sheet.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Buffalo Scale Co., <i<>Miniature Catalog, No. 526</i>, p. 20
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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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: 1983.0514.17
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0514.17
label: accession number
content: 1983.0514
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 61.5 cm x 80 cm x 38 cm; 24 3/16 in x 31 1/2 in x 14 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall; balance: 24 5/8 in x 28 1/4 in x 10 1/4 in; 62.5475 cm x 71.755 cm x 26.035 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; pan: 19 1/4 in x 18 in x 15 in; 48.895 cm x 45.72 cm x 38.1 cm