Spring Scale
Spring Scale
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- Description
- Joseph F. Fritch (1846-1932), a physician in Unionville Indiana, used this small spring scale to weigh babies. The inscription reads "SENATE / NOVELTY / PAT.D / FEBRUARY / 18, 1912."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- hand-scale, infant
- scale
- Other Terms
- Medicine
- date made
- before 1932
- Measurements
- overall: 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in x 6 in; 1.905 cm x 3.175 cm x 15.24 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-14116
- catalog number
- M-14116
- accession number
- 297970
- Credit Line
- Mr. Calvert L. Richardson
- subject
- Women's Health
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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