JAMES WATT'S FOUNDRY.
The old Soho Foundry in Birmingham, where James Watt, of the steam-engine, and Mtirdock who lighted tho world with coal gas, did their work, recently kept its 200 th birthday. Its greatest pride is in its weighing-machines. In Soho Foundry scales there is nothing in the world that cannot bo measured. There arc weighing-machines which will tell tho tonnage of a locomotive and others which will register tho thousandth part of a grain. Put a piece of paper on a scale of one of tho foundry's chemical balances, then write on it a single word, n single letter, and the scale will dip! There aro scales which are calculating machines, capable of weighing and counting at tho samo time; and scales which will register with equal precision tho weight of a truck of coal or a sack of gram or a spider's thread.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20668, 13 September 1930, Page 5 (Supplement)
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146JAMES WATT'S FOUNDRY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20668, 13 September 1930, Page 5 (Supplement)
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