Steelyard
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- Description
- Asian steelyard with a graduated bone or ivory beam, circular pan, pieced disc for sliding weight, and fitted wooden case. The donor described it as "Scales used by Chinamen for weighing gold dust in the early days of placer mining in Idaho."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Steelyard
- place made
- China
- place mining in
- United States: Idaho
- Associated Place
- United States: New Jersey
- Measurements
- case: 1 in x 3 in x 13 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 7.62 cm x 34.29 cm
- overall in case: 1 in x 3 in x 13 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 7.62 cm x 34.29 cm
- ID Number
- CH.310273
- catalog number
- 310273
- accession number
- 60953
- Credit Line
- Gift of Major General F.C. Ainsworth, U.S.A.
- subject
- Weights & Measures
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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