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Description: | Wooden box housing brass balance in separate pieces. Balance consists of one long arm with weight at end and hook at the other. Arm has numbered notches, 1 to 10, to place items at. Also in box is a cardboard box of other hooks, a glass beaker, and a cardboard tube containing a glass mercury thermometer, Thermometer attaches to balance and is between 10 and 20 Celsius. Scale hand-written on paper, also written is an inscription. Small plaque on box reads makers name and location.
Acquisition source: Satrosphere | 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: | 1800 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Baird & Tatlock | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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