Visitors to the Museum of weights and measures, looking upon the ancient analytical scales and laboratory balance weights of the beginning of the last century, often wonder how accurate the scales and weights of that time were. It is not surprising that the same question was also asked by contemporaries of scales designed by Bunge, Mora, Ortling, Kolbusch and other talented inventors.
How accurate were scales and weights 100 years ago?
Visitors to the Museum of weights and measures, looking upon the ancient analytical scales and laboratory balance weights of the beginning of the last century, often wonder how accurate the scales and weights of that time were. It is not surprising that the same question was also asked by contemporaries of scales designed by Bunge, Mora, Ortling, Kolbusch and other talented inventors.
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