Micrometer Scale

Micrometer Scale

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Description
This is a robust one pan balance with an iron and marble base, and a tag that reads “THE MICROMETER / PATENTED NOV. 22, 1892 / MAR. 22, 1898 / JUL. 21. 1903 / THE DODGE MFG. CO. / YONKERS, N.Y.” An early account explained that this balance had no springs or loose weights, but the weight end of the beam is transformed into a quick acting screw, and upon this screw the weight is moved with great accuracy. The Micrometer Balance Scale Co., a firm in Troy, N.Y. of which Mattice was a founding director, introduced this form in 1897. The Dodge Mfg. Co., of Yonkers, was selling these devices by 1905.
Ref: “Micrometer Balance Scales,” The Iron Age 60 (Dec. 23, 1897): 44.
Charles H. Mattice, “Scale,” U.S. Patent 599,529 (Feb. 22, 1898), assigned to Micrometer Balance Scale Co.
Charles H. Mattice, “Balance,” U.S. Patent 600,979 (March 22, 1898), assigned to Micrometer Balance Scale Co.
Dennis J. Whelan, “Scale,” U.S. Patent 734,383 (July 21, 1903).
Location
Currently not on view
Object Name
Balance
Object Type
Scales
Date made
ca. 1903
maker
Dodge Scale Company
Dodge Manufacturing Company
place made
United States
Measurements
base: 9 1/2 in x 12 3/4 in; 24.13 cm x 32.385 cm
pan: 9 1/4 in; x 23.495 cm
overall: 10 in x 15 in x 9 1/4 in; 25.4 cm x 38.1 cm x 23.495 cm
ID Number
CH.325673
catalog number
325673
accession number
256203
subject
Weights & Measures
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
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