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- Description
- The Smithsonian acquired this “New Triumph Plate Glass Box Prescription Scale” in 1919. The inscription on the ivory scale reads “HENRY TROEMNER / PHILADELPHIA.” That on the brass tag on the base reads: “HENRY TROEMNER / MAKER / PHILADELPHIA, PA. / CAP. 1/2 OZ, NO. CLASS ‘A’.” Troemner boasted that this instrument was “Built like the Wise Man’s House—upon a Rock. No springs to snap. Strongly built, yet sensitive—all Bearings of Selected Russian Agates.”
- Ref: Henry Troemner ad in The Spatula 20 (1913): 616.
- Henry Troemner, Catalogue (Philadelphia, 1916), p. 20.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Balance
- date made
- 1919
- maker
- Henry Troemner
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Associated Place
- United States: New Jersey
- Measurements
- overall: 8 5/8 in x 12 7/8 in x 6 1/4 in; 21.9075 cm x 32.7025 cm x 15.875 cm
- overall: balance: 8 3/4 in x 12 3/4 in x 6 3/4 in; 22.225 cm x 32.385 cm x 17.145 cm
- overall: parts in museum housing: 1 1/2 in x 7 1/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 18.0975 cm x 8.89 cm
- ID Number
- CH.M-00526
- catalog number
- M-00526
- accession number
- 64117
- Credit Line
- Gift of Henry Troemner
- subject
- Weights & Measures
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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