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  • Balance and Weights, in case.
  • Balance and Weights, in case.
  • Balance and Weights, in case.
  • Weights and measures: marks only
  • Weights and measures: marks only
  • Weights and measures in the Exchequer, 15th century.
  • Money weight balance and box weights
  • International table of Atomic weights
  • Printed label on box of weights.
  • Printed label on box of weights.
  • Folding balance and weights, with case.
  • Folding balance and weights, with case.
  • Mechanics: diagrams of levers, forces, gears, and weights. Engraving by Fletcher.
  • Rope-making, showing weights and different ways of winding. Engraving by Prevost.
  • A strongman poses next to his weights surrounded by a crowd. Photograph, 19--.
  • Hydraulics: six different kinds of waterwheel, used for lifting weights. Engraving c.1861.
  • Hydraulics: six different kinds of waterwheel, used for lifting weights. Engraving c.1861.
  • A strongman poses next to his weights surrounded by a crowd. Photograph, 19--.
  • Pan of balance for money weights showing maker's mark, label on box gives Caspar Grevenberg
  • A man exercising his arm muscles on a pulley system with weights attached. Lithograph by W. Hunter.
  • A man performing exercises in a frame with weights and pulleys. Lithograph by E. Parry & Co.
  • A naked young woman hung by her wrists on the branch of tree with weights around her ankles. Wood engraving.
  • Military Hospital V.R. 76, Ris-Orangis, France: room with bottles, measuring scales and weights, possibly the pharmacy. Photograph, 1916.
  • A short-handled flail (weapon) with four metal chains ending in metal weights. Engraving by J. Basire after R. Stothard, 1827.
  • A short-handled flail (weapon) with four metal chains ending in metal weights. Engraving by J. Basire after R. Stothard, 1827.
  • A short-handled flail (weapon) with four metal chains ending in metal weights. Engraving by J. Basire after R. Stothard, 1827.
  • Mechanics: Atwood's machine with pulleys and calibrated dials, for measuring force; and diagrams of weights and paths of descent. Engraving, after 1861.
  • Chinese sword-swallower and entertainer swinging a rope with cast metal weights attached to it. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A man lifting weights exposes himself as his trousers fall down in front of a crowd. Colour process print after Taylor, ca. 1984.
  • A man lifting weights exposes himself as his trousers fall down in front of a crowd. Colour process print after Taylor, ca. 1984.