Steel yard balance swing customers 5th July 1964

5th July 1964

An obese alderman eats gluttonously

with a few notable exceptions

View of Stephenson and Giles Starch Works at Old Ford

As his health failed

Steel yard balance swing customers 5th July 1964Front view of a medical instrument intended to correct deformities or irregularities in human bones and muscles. The device used gravity by suspending a patient (most likely a child) from the balance arms. The drawing includes details of weights and suspension tethers. Figure from the paper 'The description and uses of the steel yard balance swing', by Timothy Sheldrake, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 42 1742 1743, pp. 20 25.