Balance
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- OBJECT TYPE
- PIVOT/ANALYTICAL/DENTAL
- DATE
- 1935
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1980.0081.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Kerr Dental Mfg. Co.
- MODEL
- AUTOMATIC
- LOCATION
- Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- ALUMINUM
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 31.5 cm
- Width
- 6.2 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Medical Technology
- Category
- Dentistry
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Kerr
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Michigan
- City
- Detroit
Context
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Vermont
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
USED TO OBTAIN PROPER QUANTITIES OF INVESTMENT & CONTROL POWDER FOR USE IN PREPARING DENTAL COMPOUND. - Technical
-
EXAMPLE OF KERR'S SPECIALIZED BALANCE DESIGNED FOR USE WITH PHILLIPS'S CONTROL TECHNIQUE OF DENTAL CASTING. THE SCALE WAS USED TO DETERMINE THE PROPER RATIO OF INVESTMENT & CONTROL POWDER, FOR EVERY INVESTING TEMPERATURE. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Panel on balance beam contains variety of directions and markings: reads in part " KERR/ REG. U.S. PAT. OFF./ AUTOMATIC SCALE/ DR. DAVID W. PHILLIPS' U.S.A. PAT. NO. 2011649/ FOR USE WITH/ KERR CRISTOBALITE INLAY/ INVESTMENT", " WEIGH/ WATER & CRISTOBALITE/ ON THIS SIDE " and " WEIGH/ CONTROL POWDER/ ON THIS SIDE ".
- Missing
- PIVOT & 2 CUPS.
- Finish
- Unknown
- Decoration
- N/A
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Kerr Dental Mfg. Co., Balance, 1935, Artifact no. 1980.0081, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1980.0081.001/
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