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precision balance
Date: circa 1922
Inventory Number: 2004-1-0333
Classification: Balance
Subject:
Maker: F. W. Braun & Company (founded 1888)
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Dimensions:
43 x 42 x 27 cm (16 15/16 x 16 9/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
Description:
An adjustable scale balance in a wood and glass case. The balance consists of a vertical brass column that holds a straight horizontal beam with a scale painted in white. At both ends of this beam it turns downwards at a right angle and then goes back to horizontal for a short stretch, from which hang the balance's trays. This last stretch lies between branches of a heavy iron bar that is held by the vertical brass column slightly lower than the balance's main beam. The balance's trays are held each by two curved metallic wires that support a base on which the trays are located.
The main vertical column is also attached to a horizontal tube that is fixed to both sides of the wood case.
The main vertical column is also attached to a horizontal tube that is fixed to both sides of the wood case.
Signedright below balance needle scale: BRAUN / LOS ANGELES / PAT FEB. 28 1922.
Inscribedsticker on top scale with patent date: Property of North Amer. Mines Inc.
ProvenanceFrom the Mineralogical Museum, Harvard University. According to sticker, at one point it belonged to North American Mines Inc.