Steelyard
Steelyard
- Description
- This is an iron steelyard with a pear shaped weight. The “BEMIS & CALL, CO /... MASSACHUSETTS” inscription at the short end of the beam refers to the Bemis & Call Hardware & Tool Co., a firm established, as such, in Springfield, Mass., in 1855. The beam is also marked “29”.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Steelyard
- maker
- Bemis & Call Hardware & Tool Company
- Associated Place
- United States: New Jersey
- Measurements
- overall: 34.2 cm x 4.5 cm x 48.2 cm; 13 7/16 in x 1 3/4 in x 19 in
- overall: 19 in x 4 7/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 48.26 cm x 12.3825 cm x 2.8575 cm
- ID Number
- CH.334270
- catalog number
- 334270
- accession number
- 305956
- Credit Line
- Gift of Milton E. Kettler
- subject
- Weights & Measures
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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