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- Description
- Rugged balance on a black iron base marked “WHITALL TATUM.” The firm termed this “No. 1 Robervahl (sic) Scales,” the reference being to Gilles Personne de Roberval, a French mathematician who introduced the basic form to the Academy of Sciences in Paris in 1669.
- Emerging from one of the first glass factories in the United States, Whitall Tatum & Co. began in business in 1857. It became Whitall Tatum Company in 1901. It may have sold this balance, but probably did not make it.
- Ref: Whitall Tatum Company, Price List (Philadelphia, 1910), p. 161.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- balance
- date made
- late nineteenth century
- Measurements
- overall: 6 5/8 in x 12 1/2 in x 4 7/8 in; 16.8275 cm x 31.75 cm x 12.3825 cm
- ID Number
- CH.M-09476
- catalog number
- M-09476
- accession number
- 232068
- Credit Line
- J. Stanley Falck
- subject
- Weights & Measures
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- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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