Balance
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- Description
- Hand balance with a 6-inch iron beam with index, and deep 2.5-inch brass pans, several square brass weights, and wooden box. A hand-written label inside of the lid indicates the weight (in scruples) of various substances. This belonged to Joseph W. Moore, an 1889 graduate of the Maryland College of Pharmacy.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Balance, Hand
- balance
- date made
- late nineteenth century
- Physical Description
- cotton (string material)
- metal (weights material)
- metal (beam material)
- metal (hanger material)
- metal (pans(2) material)
- wood (case material)
- Measurements
- overall - case: 1 1/4 in x 6 7/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 3.175 cm x 17.4625 cm x 8.5725 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-13056
- catalog number
- M-13056
- accession number
- 321641
- catalog number
- 321641.027
- Credit Line
- American Pharmaceutical Association
- subject
- Weights & Measures
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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