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  • The weight scale was invented 4000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Mesopotamians derived the T-like balance apparatus from the yoke system which consisted of two equal masses suspended from a wooden beam supported in the center, usually by oxen. Greeks and Romans refined scales, suspending metal pans from the beams to hold measurable objects.

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    Madehow: Scale

    Averyweigh-tronix: The History of Weighing

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