Accession No

1405

Brief Description

scales, 19th Century

Origin

Maker

Class

balances

Earliest Date

1800

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

Material

metal (steel, brass); wood; rope (cord); cloth (velvet)

Dimensions

box length 172mm; breadth 85mm; height 32mm

Special Collection

Cavendish collection

Provenance

Transferred from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, in 1974. Originally from the Stokes Collection.

Inscription

Description Notes

Pair of balances. Two steel beams; both with swan’s neck beam ends (smaller with hooks, larger without; 11-2-2000); self-locating knife edge and ring bearing; index over; smaller beam has index with screw thread and adjustable brass weight. Gallows with ring bearing on both. One with hook and tassel, smaller one just with hook. Two circular brass pans with suspension cords (one broken). Box with partition for weights (none extant) lined with pink velvet. Single hook fastening.

Incomplete (no weights).

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