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- OBJECT TYPE
- pocket/pendulum/hand held
- DATE
- 1850
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2002.0928.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 5
- AKA
- dispensing scale; beam & pans (.1)
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Silver metal (steel) beam, pointer and guard, and grip (holder) are silver metal; round brass pans are slightly concave; pans suspended from beam by buff-colour string.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 18.0 cm
- Width
- 1.5 cm
- Height
- 17.2 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
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- This balance used c. 1850s; possibly also used later.
- Canada
-
Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON. - Function
-
Unknown - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- None evident, save UHN catalogue no. "X931.3 2 D" printed by hand in white ink on cross beam. "X931.3.2 B" and "X931.3.2 C" printed by hand in white ink on underside of pans.
- Missing
- Unknown
- Finish
- Silver metal (steel) beam, pointer and guard, and grip (holder) are silver metal; round brass pans are slightly concave; pans suspended from beam by buff-colour string.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Balance, circa 1850, Artifact no. 2002.0928, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/2002.0928.001/
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