Balance
date: label: date made
content: 1860s
name: label: assignee
content: Buckelew, John D.
label: assignee
content: Waterman, Albert G.
label: maker
content: Buckelew & Waterman
notes: label: Description
content: Balance with a “BUCKELEW & WATERMAN PHILADA.” Inscription. John D. Buckelew was a wealthy farmer from New Jersey who provided the capital for the scale maker, Albert G. Waterman. The “PATD JULY 7, 1863” inscription indicates the date of a patent issued to Sandy Harris, a former employee of the Customs House in Philadelphia.
label: Description
content: Ref: Sandy Harris, “Improvement in Balances,” U.S. Patent 39,145 (July 7, 1863).
label: Description
content: Kurt Beyreis, “Sandy Harris, Scale Inventor,” <i>Equilibrium</i> (2006): 3110-3112.
label: Description
content: Steve Beare, “Buckelew & Waterman—A Short-Lived Philadelphia Business,” <i>Equilibrium</i> (2006): 3113-3118.
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.308930
label: catalog number
content: 308930
label: accession number
content: 78532
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Balance
label: Object Type
content: Balances
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19.8 cm x 22.8 cm x 46.3 cm; 7 13/16 in x 9 in x 18 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: pan: 22.8 cm; x 9 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 18 in x 9 in; 17.145 cm x 45.72 cm x 22.86 cm