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- OBJECT TYPE
- folding/pocket/graduated/grains
- DATE
- 1885
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2002.0926.002
- MANUFACTURER
- Randolph, N.V. & Co.
- MODEL
- Dr. C.H. Fitch
- LOCATION
- Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 2
- Total Parts
- 4
- AKA
- scale arm
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Nickel- plated (?) flat metal strip slides into pan housing; fitted with silver metal slide.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 6.5 cm
- Width
- 1.1 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Metrology
- Category
- Mass/weight
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Randolph
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Virginia
- City
- Richmond
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Presumably used after 1885.
- 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
-
Used to measure mass of powdered substances, typically medicinal in nature. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Arm bears graduated scale O to 20 stamped on face: scale labelled "GRAINS", divided by half grains and labelled at intervals of 5. UHN catalogue no. "X969.55.15 A" printed by hand in black ink on reverse.
- Missing
- Unknown- appears complete
- Finish
- Nickel- plated (?) flat metal strip slides into pan housing; fitted with silver metal slide.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Randolph, N.V. & Co., Scale, after 1885, Artifact no. 2002.0926, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/2002.0926.002/
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