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date: label: Date made
content: 1874
label: date made
content: 1871
name: label: patented by
content: Riehl
label: patented by
content: Olsen, Tinius
label: maker
content: Riehl
label: maker
content: Olsen, Tinius
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Frederick A. Riehlé and Tinius Olsen, “Improvement in Scales,” U.S. Patent. 155,753 (May 29, 1874), assignors to Riehlé Bros.
label: Description
content: Frederick A. and Henry Riehlé were Philadelphia businessmen who began trading as Riehlé Bros., in 1867, making and selling scales and materials testing machines. Tinius Olsen (1845-1932) was a Norwegian-born engineer who worked for the Riehlé Bros. in the 1870s, and who would later establish his own material testing machine business.
label: Description
content: Frederick A. Riehlé, <i>Fifty Years of a Businessman’s Life</i> (Philadelphia, 1916).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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.308951
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: 308951
label: patent number
content: 155,753
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Object Type
content: Scales
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 10 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 10.795 cm x 26.67 cm x 13.97 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 10 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 10.795 cm x 26.67 cm x 13.97 cm