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International names:

Compound steelyard, schwedischen Schiffswaage

English description:

Balance. Compound.

Danish Instrument Inventory text:

Balance. Compound. Mahogany frame, base 280x130 H370 supports the brass balance from 2 hooks. Brass balance beams L150, 2 in series, the end of a second-order lever provides the load to a first-order lever, whose counterpoise can therefore balance a heavy weight. Sliding riders on which can be hung weights.Ref. Musschenbroek 1747 Tab V Fig 1.Not signed1800 app (g)

• Category: Statics
• Hauch number: B60
• Inventory number: 940
• Danish Instrument Inventory number: 313

• Hauch references:
• Begynd.grund: §137
• Cabinet 1:

• Literature:
• Martinus van Marum: 4
• The King George III Collection: M49

• Musschenbroek(1729) pl.V fig.1

  's Gravesande(1747) pl.11 fig.2

  Gehler(1825-45) X p.34