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THI TIMIS RICOUD, N. TUESDAY EVJNIMC, PICiMtU 1, 1H4 Who First Used Scales To Weigh Things? Wli tke 15-vdiiaK Bkt Send name, age, address ell Me Way! 1 care this paper. Ii case duplicate the author will decide tke: wiuer. Today'i wimer is: GUria KowaUki, Calif. ByA.LEOKUM Supposi you lived in some primitive place and had to builo your own scale to weigh things how would you do it Well, here's the simplest method of all.

You take a bar and suspend it hori zontaily so that it it perfectly balanced. Then-if you attach loads to opposite ends'of the FAIRYLAND CHILDREN'S SHOP 56 THIRD. STATI OF ALI. WILL BE CLOSED 3 DAYS OPENING THURS. MORN.

IN MlfXHXTION OF STORE FOK GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE! STARTING THURS. 9:30 tar, you'll be able tell which This foriB of weifhiBf was the first kind by man, aid it wcj develoiwd by toe Egyptians 4,000 or 5,000 years ago. fhey balanced a bar from i beam by. a cord through the center. Then they; hung two pans from cords at either end of the -bar.

By putting a known weight ia one pan, they couid weigh the object in the other The Romans used this same principle, but they improved on it. wed what is called a "steelyard." It was a beam usually hiing from a hook, but it had two unequal arms or levers. The article to be weighed is bung from the short arm, near the fulcrum. A weight is moved along the longer arm until a balance is reached. Markings on the long arm show the weight.

Later on, in the Middle Ages, the "knife edge" was developed. The fulcrum was tharpened like a knife to reduce friction. Most modern scales are based on these same principles. Today oi course, we have scales of amazing delicacy. There are scales that can measure the weight of a human hair, or even the weight of writing on a piece of paper! And then there are scales so huge that they-can measure the weight of a locpmo live or of a loaded freight car.

These large scales are called platform scales, ind they have a series of levers that act upon eteh other. 'The icalct were Invented in 1830. by Tbaddeus Fairbanks. On the common spans the article to tx weighed hung a hook or placed in'a pin below The of the spring registers the weight, on a dial or a flat surface above. The spring stretches more as more weight applied.

Did you know that when banVU want to count a great many gold coins, they don't actually count Ihtm--they weigh them! FUN TIME The Riddle KOI 1. When doec'an automobile So exactly as fast as'a train? 2. When was.beef the highest it his ever been? 3. How do you pronounct VOLIX? Answers 1, When the train. 2.

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Anna D. Simril, 41, was found in a field behind their home Oct, 20. Troopers'said no motive had been.established. Dean Richardson Rice of the Social Welfare Education. Department of the State University of New York at Albany will be a guest of the Northeastern New YOI'JC.

Chapter of SpeUt Workers tomorrow it 7:45 p.m. at Brubacker Hall, Albany. Paul Wheeler, chairman of Social Workers To Hold Session the chipter recruitment committee, has irnnied for a panel to discuss the role of the guidance counselor. IB recruitment of locial workers at the high school level. Participants will be Miss Marian Schenecta'dy; a Callahan executive director of Schenectady Council of Community Services: Richard Collins, executive director, Trinity Institute, Albany, and Eugene I-cla of the Capital District Guidance Counselors Assn.

Other guests will include Dr. Inventors To Hold Meeting Tomorrow Night The second meeting oJ the newly organized In ijjane Ives, professor, Social League of Albany, will be i Welfare Education; members conducted tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Room of the Crossroads, Latham. Addressing the group will be Anthony J. Parissi of Cohoei and John Houser of Rensselaer, both members of the group.

Mr. Parissi will speak of his work in the inventive field. He studies with several inventors and has 14 U.S. patents and several pending in Italy and Canada. Mr.

Houser, who has more than 90 patents, attended various collejcs, including Vermont State Teachers College, Norwich University and RPI. He will speak on cost analysis. of the School of Social Welfare, and the district guidance selori. in Dean is in the' of organizing the new School tlT Social Work which will open lay the fall of IMS. He served as executive director a( the New England Wanderers ia Mass.

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