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weights for precision balance
weights for precision balance

weights for precision balance

Date1900-1925
Inventory Number1998-1-0123
ClassificationWeights
Subject
    Maker F. Sartorius 1870-present
    Owner James B. Conant 1893 - 1978
    Cultural Region
      Place of Origin
        Place of Use
          Dimensions4.7 x 13.9 x 10.8 cm (1 7/8 x 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.)
          Material
            DescriptionA wooden case with a glass lid and felt interior with holes for a balance's weights. The weights themselves have a brass exterior and are incomplete.

            "J.B. Conant" scratched into glass lid of weights and handwritten on inside bottom of case (to whom the set belonged).
            Signedon case border, engraved: F SARTORIUS GOTTINGEN
            FunctionUsed to determine an object's mass by placing them as counterweight on a balance.
            ProvenanceDiscovered in University Hall, Harvard University. Transferred to CHSI September 19, 1990.
            box of balance weights
            box of balance weights
            Clifford Frondel
            Date: 1930-1960
            Object number: 1996-1-0216
            box of balance weights
            box of balance weights
            Voland & Sons
            Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
            Accessories: glass bar covering aluminum pieces
            Object number: 1996-1-0218
            box of balance weights
            box of balance weights
            Empire Laboratory Supply Company, Inc.
            Date: 1917-1939
            Object number: 1996-1-0217
            box of balance weights
            box of balance weights
            American Balance Corporation
            Date: 1920-1950
            Accessories: brush; brass tweezers
            Object number: 1996-1-0219
            set of brass weights
            set of brass weights
            Baker & Sons
            Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
            Accessories: fittted box; weights
            Object number: 3817
            set of brass weights
            set of brass weights
            American
            Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
            Accessories: box; weights; tweezers
            Object number: 3816
            brass weights and silver fractional weights
            brass weights and silver fractional weights
            American
            Date: 1870-1900
            Object number: 3820
            balance weights
            balance weights
            William Ainsworth & Sons, Inc.
            Date: circa 1920
            Object number: 2004-1-0328
            nested weights
            nested weights
            English
            Date: circa 1820
            Accessories: 5 brass weights, brass holder, piece of lead
            Object number: DW0227
            accessories for double pan balance
            accessories for double pan balance
            American
            Date: 1900-1930
            Object number: 1998-1-0093a-g
            troy weights for Dearborn gold standard balance
            troy weights for Dearborn gold standard balance
            Benjamin Dearborn
            Date: circa 1835
            Object number: 1998-1-0038b
            box of weights for analytical balance
            box of weights for analytical balance
            German
            Date: circa 1930
            Object number: 2006-1-0105