Collection Highlights
Ma-Nuncue
Date:
After 1826
Object Number:
PR.221.58
Medium:
Engraving
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Scale
Object Number:
INV.766
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Iron, brass
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/2 x 5 x 2 1/4 in. ( 31.8 x 12.7 x 5.7 cm )
Description:
Scale with crescent shaped piece of sheet brass marked with calibrations enclosed in an iron band bent into an oval, with needle hinged to overlapping end; with large cast iron ring at the top from which apparatus is suspended, and two cast iron hooks and another, smaller ring joined to outside of oval.
Gallery Label:
This object may be an example of a spring scale, a type in which measurement is based on the deformation of some elastic material (in this case the iron band bent into an oval with overlapping ends).
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
