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- Description
- Set of weights in a wooden box. The heaviest is 50 grams. A label in front reads “MADE BY / August Sauter / Ebingen, Germany / for / Central Scientific Company / Chicago.” While Sauter began making weights and balances in 1856, these weights were made after the establishment of the Central Scientific Co. in 1900.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Weights
- Object Type
- Weights
- Balances
- maker
- Sauter, August
- Sauter, August
- Central Scientific Company
- Central Scientific Company
- Measurements
- brass weight:;
- brass weight:;
- box: 35 mm x 161 mm x 90 mm; 1 3/8 in x 6 5/16 in x 3 9/16 in
- brass weight:;
- brass weight:;
- brass weight:;
- overall in box: 1 3/8 in x 6 3/16 in x 3 3/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 15.71625 cm x 8.5725 cm
- ID Number
- CH.315233
- catalog number
- 315233
- accession number
- 218476
- Credit Line
- Gift of Edward H. Turner
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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