Accession No

2778

Brief Description

Lever balance

Origin

Maker

Class

balances

Earliest Date

1930

Latest Date

1930

Inscription Date

Material

wood; metal (iron, white metal); ivorine

Dimensions

length 377mm; height 241mm; breadth 204mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from Department of Botany, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 03/09/1981.

Inscription

‘Lever balance. Capacity 100 grm.
Scale divisions = .01 grm. Adjust
to zero by screw at left end of
base before weighing.’ (paper label on base)

Description Notes

Lever balance mounted on a wooden base with two levelling screws. Zero adjustment. Two pans suspended from beam one with piston damping arrangement. Centre of gravity adjustment at end of beam. Pointer at other end of beam moving over ivorine scale divided 0 - 100, numbered by 10, graduated to 1.

Condition good; complete

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