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- OBJECT TYPE
- SPECIFIC GRAVITY
- DATE
- 1936
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1997.0129.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
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General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 10
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- WOODEN CASE WITH METAL HARDWARE AND FEET, AND GLASS SIDES/ BRASSSCALE BEAM AND PILLAR/ BRASS BALANCE WEIGHT/ BRASS AND ALUMINUM RIDERS/ GLASS PLUMMETS WITH PAPER SCALE AND MERCURY/ CARDSTOCK AND WOOD PLUMMET CASES
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 51.0 cm
- Width
- 26.0 cm
- Height
- 46.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Metrology
- Category
- Mass/weight
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- PROBABLY 1930S TO 1960S
- Canada
-
TYPE SAMPLE OF BALANCE USED BY THE STANDARDS DEPT. IN CANADA - Function
-
USED FOR MAKING RAPID, ACCURATE DETERMINATIONS OF THE SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF LIQUIDS BY MEASURING THE LOSS OF WEIGHT OF AN IMMERSED PLUMMET OF STANDARDIZED WEIGHT & VOLUME. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- .1 STAMPED ON ONE SIDE OF BEAM: NUMBERS '1' TO '9'/.2 PRINTED ON PAPER INSIDE: 'Celsius/ Reimann's D.R./ Patent No. 791/ 00/ 10/ 15/ 20'/.3 PRINTED ON PAPER INSIDE: 'Celsius/ Korper n. Reimann./ 5 g verdrangend./ 10 15 20 30/ 131'/ [OTHER PARTS HAVE NO MARKINGS)/ STICKER ON BACK: 'INDUSTRY CANADA/ [BAR CODE]/ 971063'
- Missing
- 2 RIDER WEIGTHS/ .3 PLUMMET HAS TOP BROKEN OFF AND MISSING/ GLASS JAR/ FORCEPS
- Finish
- CASE STAINED AND VARNISHED/ BRASS PIECES LACQUERED/ UNCOLOURED GLASS
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Scale, circa 1936, Artifact no. 1997.0129, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1997.0129.001/
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