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- OBJECT TYPE
- IMPERIAL/ANALYTICAL/INCH WEIGHT
- DATE
- 1900
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1997.0097.016
- MANUFACTURER
- PARKER, THOMAS
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- England
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General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 16
- Total Parts
- 19
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Unknown
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Metrology
- Category
- Mass/weight
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- PARKER
- Country
- England
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- PROBABLY FROM THE EARLY PART OF THE 20C UP TO THE 1970S
- Canada
-
USED BY THE STANDARDS LABORATORY IN CANADA - Function
-
USED TO BALANCE SMALL QUANTITIES ON A BALANCE SCALE TO DETERMINE THE WEIGHT. - Technical
-
THOMAS PARKER INVENTED THE "INCH WEIGHT" BASED ON THE "CUBIC FOOT STANDARD WEIGHT" DEVELOPED IN 1814. [REF 1]/ ONE "UNIT" = 250 GRAINS = 1 CUBIC INCH OF WATER AT 122 [DEGREES] F./ 1/1000 UNIT = 1/4 GRAIN. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- NO MARKINGS
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- BRASS WEIGHT LACQUERED
- Decoration
- N/A
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PARKER, THOMAS, Weight, circa 1900, Artifact no. 1997.0097, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1997.0097.016/
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