Student Analytical Balance
Voland & Sons, Inc., New Rochelle, New York
about 1910
Wooden base with drawer (contains "setting up balance" instructions, box of paper slips, misc screws, two pans), brass pilar and beam, flat aluminum pans, drawer stamped "18713" capacity 20 ounces, 600 gr., "Balance #1053"
Overall: 16 1/2 × 9 1/2 × 17 in. (41.9 × 24.1 × 43.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
2007.1.116
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Scientific Instrument
Research Area
Scientific Instrument
Scientific Instrument: Weights and Measures
Not on view
Published References
See Calkins Col, Los Angeles, Cat. No. 9, Assayers Materials and Laboratory Supplies, ca. 1929, Portable Assay Outfit, No. 1130 (similar design), accessed www.humboldt.edu/~scimus/maufac/Voland/Voland.htm (1/08).
Provenance
Roger H. Soderberg, Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College; transferred into the Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments, February 2003.
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