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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "History" 2009.06.27 (04) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: 15px;">R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>> wrote<br>Subject: History</span></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>
</div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">One
was set up outside a church in Edinburgh's High Street, probably after
1603 for market prodice to be weighed prior to selling at the market
adjacent to St Giles High Church.</span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Scots referred to the device as a
"TRON" and the church where it was situated is still called The Tron
Church. Long abandoned an enterprising local gained access in Vistorin
Times</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and established an illicit whisky still. He ran the
vent up into the steeple so the smells op distilling wafted well above
the city.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I recall steelyards being used in Edinburgh butchers' shops in the 1940's.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="im">
<br><div><div>On 28/06/2009, at 8:04 AM, Lowlands-L List wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-size: 15px;">The
Steelyard gave its name to a type of portable balance, consisting of a
graduated horizontal metal beam suspended on a chain. The whole balance
would be hung from a roof beam. A heavy object to be weighed, for
instance a sack of flour, would be hung on the shorter end of the beam,
while lesser but known weights would be slid along the other, longer
end, till the beam balanced. The weight of the sack could then be
calculated by multiplying the sum of the known weights by the ratio of
the distances from the beam's fulcrum.</span></span></blockquote></div><br></div> <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="">
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<div><div style=""><div style=""><div>Regards</div><div>Tom Mc Rae</div><div>Brisbane</div><div>AUSTRALIA</div><div>"Oh wad some power the Giftie gie us,</div><div>Tae see oorsels as ithers see us</div><div>Robert Burn</div>
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