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Shelfmark: 19903-0000 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: instrument
Dimension: H.: 7,5; Diam.: 5
 
Component's data
Thematic group: Instruments 
Type: missing instrument
Abstract: Cylindrical brass weight (with knob), marked "I. Kilogramme" and stamped "Modele - Fortin". This weight may well have been the original made for Lavoisier as the first standard used by the Commission of weights and measures.
 
Attributes
Person City Cronology   Position
name: Nicolas Fortin
resp.: maker
name: Paris
date/range: 1790
date of: manufacture
epoch: 18 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: owner
name: Paris
date/range: 1790
date of: manufacture
epoch: 18 (2°)
 
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Académie des Sciences Commission Weigths and Measures