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Description: | Wooden balance beam with central brass insert containing pointer 172 mm long surmounted by 2 brass balls (to increase moment of inertia). Beam is wider in centre, has circular ends and inset red band 6 mm wide on one side. Distance between pan carriers is 700 mm. Left-hand pan carrier missing. The size of the beam and the red band suggest this is a piece for demonstrating the principle of the balance and may not have been part of a working balance. Centre brass fitting | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDNP University of Aberdeen, Natural Philosophy Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1845-1880 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | unknown | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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