Most of us diet and check our weight, but the days of tall scales sitting on a street corner waiting for someone to put a penny in the slot and step on the scale are almost gone. It was during the ...

THE versatile curator of the Hull Museums has collated in this volume the notes on coin scales and weights—mainly with reference to the unique collection in his charge—which have appeared during ...

You want to be sure your kitchen scale is calibrated right, or your recipes aren't going to turn out very well. Baking expert Alice Medrich recommends using standard US coins to check. A standard ...