Balance
Balance
- Description
- This spring scale is marked “MORTON & BREMNER’S / SPRING BALANCE MADE / BY THOMAS MORTON / TO WEIGHT 30 W BY OUNCES” and “EACH 10 lb. IS MARKED ON THE SLIDE / THE INTERMEDIATE WEIGHTS ON THE CIRCLE” and “1867” and “WARRANTED.” It was probably part of the model that accompanied Richard Murdoch’s application for a patent for an “Improvement in Suspending Scale Pans.” Murdoch’s patent (#75,448 of 1868) described the pans, not the scale itself.
- Thomas Morton and Andrew Augustus Bremner, both of New York, began in business in 1841, making spring balances and weighing devices. Bremner left the firm in 1855; Morton was still in business in the 1870s.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Balance
- Spring Balance
- Object Type
- Patent Models
- Patent Model
- Balances
- Date made
- ca. 1870
- date made
- 1867
- patented by
- Camp, Samuel R. P.
- retailer
- Morton & Bremmer
- maker
- Morton, Thomas
- place made
- United States: New York, New York
- Measurements
- cloth tape: 55 mm; x 2 3/16 in
- pointer: 47 mm; x 1 7/8 in
- dial: 10.2 cm; x 4 in
- overall: 30.5 cm x 11.4 cm x 3.8 cm; 12 in x 4 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in
- ID Number
- CH.308929
- catalog number
- 308929
- patent number
- 103,977
- accession number
- 89797
- subject
- Weights & Measures
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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