Silverloy Balance
Silverloy Balance
- Description
- Silverloy was an amalgam introduced to market in 1919 by the Crescent Dental Manufacturing Co., of Chicago. A Silverloy balance was used to weigh that substance.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Balance
- Object Type
- balance
- Other Terms
- Balance; Dentistry
- Measurements
- overall: 1 7/8 in x 1 1/8 in x 6 in; 4.7625 cm x 2.8575 cm x 15.24 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-11176
- catalog number
- M-11176
- accession number
- 254077
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. J. O. Pierson
- subject
- Dr. C. Edmund Kells Collection
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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