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IN addition, a small exhibition of weighing and linear measuring instruments will be on view in the Main Entrance Hall of the Science Museum from February until May. The exhibition illustrates briefly, by objects and photographic transparencies, progress in metrology since early times. In the very limited space available, only one form of balance has been selected for illustration—the precision or equal-armed balance; similarly, only standard scales and micrometer development have been shown in the linear section. The exhibits include, however, the principal British Exchequer standard weights and linear measures from the time of Henry VII. (1485), excepting, of course, the current national standards. This collection, hitherto in charge of the Standards Department of the Board of Trade, has now been transferred to the Science Museum.
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Weights and Linear Measures. Nature 129, 230 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129230b0
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