Westphal Specific Gravity Balance
name: label: designer
content: Westphal, Georg
notes: label: Description
content: A specific gravity balance is used to measure the buoyancy of an object by weighing that object in air and then in water. The form was devised by a German pharmacist, Karl Friedrich Mohr, and improved by Georg Westphal (1836-1902), a balance and philosophical apparatus maker in Celle.
title: label: Title
content: Specific Gravity Balance
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bowdoin College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.329723
label: catalog number
content: 329723
label: accession number
content: 278336
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: plummet glass: 83 mm x 10 mm; 3 1/4 in x 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: stand and balance arm: 20 cm x 21 cm x 5.7 cm; 7 7/8 in x 8 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: cylinder: 5 in x 1 15/16 in; 12.7 cm x 4.99999 cm
label: Measurements
content: box: 7.6 cm x 22.9 cm x 16.5 cm; 3 in x 9 in x 6 1/2 in