Balance
date: label: date made
content: 1938
name: label: maker
content: Exact Weight Scale Company
notes: label: Description
content: Rugged balance with a chrome finish, designed for commercial and industrial purposes. The inscription on the front reads “THE EXACT WEIGHT SCALE CO., COLUMBUS, O. / ‘EXACT WEIGHT’ / MADE IN U.S.A. / U.S. PAT. NOS. NOV-8-1921 FEB-7-1922 / 1694442 / STYLE 8000.” That on the back reads “EXACT WEIGHT / SCALE CO. / COLUMBUS, OHIO, U.S.A.” The scale reads “EXACT WEIGHT” and over/under up to two ounces. There are two 1 pound cylindrical weights.
label: Description
content: The Smith Scale Company, of Columbus, Ohio, was established in 1916, to manufacture scales and balances designed by Walter Standish Smith (1877-1940). By 1930 the firm had become the Exact Weight Scale Co. That firm presented this example to the Smithsonian in 1935. The bottom is sectioned so that the mechanism can be seen.
label: Description
content: Ref: Walter S. Smith, “Weighing Scale,” U.S. Patent 1,396,668 (Nov. 8, 1921), assigned to the Smith Scale Company.
label: Description
content: Walter S. Smith, “Scale,” U.S. Patent 1,405,634 (Feb. 7, 1922), assigned to the Smith Scale Company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Columbus
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Exact Weight Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.311532
label: accession number
content: 135108
label: catalog number
content: 311532
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Scale
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: base: 19 in x 7 in x 18 in; 48.26 cm x 17.78 cm x 45.72 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 1/4 in x 22 in x 9 in; 48.895 cm x 55.88 cm x 22.86 cm