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Shelfmark: 19900-0000 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: instrument
Dimension: H.: 20; Diam.: 9; Mass: 1950 g.
 
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Thematic group: Instruments 
Type: weights
Abstract: Set of weights shaped as hollow cylinders stacked one inside the other in a pile on a wooden base packed with lead. The weights are marked at top 1 livre, 5/10, 3/10, 2/10, 1/10, 5/100, 3/100, 2/100. Any weight can be taken from the pile without moving the others.
 
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Person City Cronology   Position
name: -
name: Paris
date/range: 1952
date of: donation
epoch: 20 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: owner
name: Paris
date/range: 1788
date of: manufacture
epoch: 18 (2°)
 
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Discipline Topic Argument

Académie des Sciences Weigths and Measures Weights

 
Digital version:  3  Image/s
INV-19900a INV-19900b 19900_b_w

 

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