A description of the vibrating steelyard, or just balance.
Subtitle: Invented by the subscriber, and secured to him by patent. This convenient and accurate steelyard, unites more advantages for weighing with ease, dispatch, and certainty, than any instrument heretofore offered to the public; as may be seen by the following comparative view of the common steelyard and scales, and the vibrating steelyard.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 35388.
Publisher: Printed by John Spooner?
Published: 1799
Place of publication: [New Bedford, Mass.?
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Weighing instruments -- Massachusetts -- Taunton.; Inventions -- Massachusetts -- Taunton.
Notes: Signed: Benjamin Dearborn. Taunton, (Commonwealth of Massachusetts,) Sept. 1799.

Ascribed to the press of John Spooner of New Bedford by Evans.

Evans 35388.

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 2916.

Rink, E.  Technical Americana, 838.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 35388)