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- Description
- Set of six gold-plated brass cylindrical weights of from 1 to 20 grams, eight smaller weights of coiled wire, and tweezers. The top of the wood box is marked “Made in Germany” and “PAUL BUNGE / HAMBURG.” Nelson Kellogg Richtmyer, the donor of these weights, was a chemist at the National Institutes of Health.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Weights
- Object Type
- Weights
- maker
- Bunge, Paul
- place made
- Germany: Hamburg, Hamburg
- Measurements
- box: 5 3/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 13.6525 cm x 9.525 cm x 4.445 cm
- overall in box: 1 3/4 in x 5 3/8 in x 4 in; 4.445 cm x 13.6525 cm x 10.16 cm
- ID Number
- CH.315365
- accession number
- 219307
- catalog number
- 315365
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Nelson K. Richtmyer
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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