Computing Scale
Computing Scale
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- Description
- Large counter balance with a gold finish, fan-shaped scale at top, and the word “BRANTFORD” in large painted letters near the bottom. The commodity plate is round, white and porcelain. Brantford Computing Scales, Ltd. was a Canadian firm organized in 1910.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Balance
- Object Type
- Scales
- date made
- around 1920
- place made
- Canada
- Canada: Ontarian, Brantford
- Measurements
- overall: 72.4 cm x 38.2 cm x 45.7 cm; 28 1/2 in x 15 1/16 in x 18 in
- overall: 28 13/16 in x 15 1/2 in x 18 1/2 in; 73.18375 cm x 39.37 cm x 46.99 cm
- ID Number
- 1983.0514.27
- catalog number
- 1983.0514.27
- accession number
- 1983.0514
- Credit Line
- Gift of City of New York
- subject
- Weights & Measures
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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