Balance
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- OBJECT TYPE
- BEAM/ANALYTICAL/EQUAL ARM
- DATE
- 1954
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1995.0431.001
- MANUFACTURER
- SARTORIUS-WERKE AG
- MODEL
- SELECTA RAPID
- LOCATION
- Göttingen, Germany
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 84367
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASING, MECHANISM, PARTS/ GLASS WINDOWS/ SYNTHETIC PARTS/ WOOD DOOR HANDLES
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 38.0 cm
- Width
- 34.0 cm
- Height
- 53.0 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
- SARTORIUS
- Country
- Germany
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Göttingen
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- C. 1954 TO 1988+
- Canada
-
EXAMPLE OF EQUIPMENT USED AT LARGEST RESEARCH INSTITUTION IN CANADA DURING PERIOD OF ITS MOST RAPID GROWTH, GREATEST PRODUCTIVITY & DURING WHICH IT DEVELOPED WORLD RENOWNED REPUTATION. - Function
-
INSTRUMENT USED TO DETERMINE MASS OF SUBSTANCES IN LABORATORY. ANALYTICAL BALANCES ARE PRECISION BALANCES DESIGNED TO MEASURE MASS OF QUANTITIES TO ACCURACY RANGING FROM 0.1 TO 0.01 MILLIGRAMS. - Technical
-
ONE OF LAST MODELS OF EQUAL ARM BALANCE WITH BUILT WITH WEIGHTS IN ONE ARM. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- PLATE ON FRONT READS "SARTORIUSORIGINAL SELECTA/ SARTORIUS-WERKE/ A.G./ GOTTINGEN"/ PLATE ON BACK READS "Selecta Rapid 200 g/ 34367/ Made in Germany"/ PLATE ON FRONT READS "CANADIAN/ LABORATORY SUPPLIES/ LIMITED/ MONTREAL-TORONTO-WINNIPEG"/ LABEL READING "NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL/ BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES/ NO. CON54009"
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- CASING PAINTED GLOSSY LIGHT GREEN/ PLATES & METALLIC PARTS/ BLACK SYNTHETIC/ UNFINISHED WOOD
- Decoration
- N/A
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SARTORIUS-WERKE AG, Balance, circa 1954, Artifact no. 1995.0431, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1995.0431.001/
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