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Description: | Set of scales, with brass pans and brass weights, in a wooden box; Used by Rev Alexander John Forsyth for weighing the ingredients used to make a detonating powder in 1805-6; Forsyth invented the percussion lock for fire arms, and his experiments involve
"Scales belonging to Forsyth used by him while producing a detonating powder in 1805-6."
Author: Inglis,Jim & Curtis,Neil Date: 1990 Purpose: Encyclopaedia of the North-East
"The Reverend John Alexander Forsyth, LLD, born on 28th December 1768 at Belhelvie, and the son of the minister there was a man of many interests and achievements. He patented a percussion lock for fire arms, which was adopted 30 years later by the British army. He held the charge at Belhelvie himself between 1790 and 1843. He is credited with establishing a savings bank and introducing smallpox vaccination into NE Scotland. The percussion lock involved him in producing detonating powder for his experiments. These scales with brass pans and a set of brass weights all contained in a wooden box were used to weigh the ingredients used to make the detonating powder."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1800-1810 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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