Weighing Scales
date: label: Date made
content: 1870
name: label: patented by
content: Fairbanks, Thaddeus
label: maker
content: E. and T. Fairbanks and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Thaddeus Fairbanks, “Improvement in Weighing-Scales,” U.S. Patent 102,791 (May 10, 1870). Thaddeus Fairbanks (1796-1886) was a founder and proprietor of E. & T. Fairbanks, in St. Johnsbury, Vt. He described this invention as an “improvement in weighing scales” that was “intended to facilitate the weighing of widely-varying quantities with the same machine, without necessitating any delay for adjustment or change of counterpoise.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Vermont, Saint Johnsbury
topic: label: Subject
content: Weights & Measures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.308927
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: 308927
label: patent number
content: 102,791
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scales
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 12 in x 10 in x 3 in; 30.48 cm x 25.4 cm x 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 13 in x 4 1/4 in; 25.4 cm x 33.02 cm x 10.795 cm