Metabulator Scale
name: label: maker
content: Sanborn Company
notes: label: Description
content: Plastic scale with inscriptions that read “BMR CALCULATOR” and “BASAL METABOLIC RATE” and “SANBORN COMPANY / WALTHAM, MASS.” The Sanborn company, a medical instrument firm in the Boston area, was established in 1917 by Frank Sanborn (1865-1958). The Sanborn Metabulator was on the market by the early 1950s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0165.870
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.870
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculator, bmr
label: Object Name
content: Metabulator Scale
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: bmr calculator ruler: 1 1/2 in x 12 5/16 in x 1/8 in; 3.81 cm x 31.27375 cm x .3175 cm
label: Measurements
content: case / overall: 2 1/8 in x 16 in x 1/2 in; 5.3975 cm x 40.64 cm x 1.27 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 9 7/8 in x 1/16 in; 1.905 cm x 25.0825 cm x .15875 cm
label: Measurements
content: tab: 1 5/16 in x 3/4 in x 3/8 in; 3.33375 cm x 1.905 cm x .9525 cm