Section 05
Iron
03 entries · When equipment replaced geology.
Once a weight could be manufactured to a number, the number became the object. This section follows that shift: a market counterweight with a handle, a bar that takes plates, and what happened to the stones once strength could be written down and compared anywhere.
Everything filed under Iron
Complete for this section- The giryaEntryA Russian market counterweight with a handle, used for weighing goods long before it was used for anything else.
- The adjustable barbellEntryPlate-loading turned strength into a number that could be repeated anywhere, and York, Pennsylvania became the address for it.
- What standardisation didShort entryOnce weight was uniform, records became comparable — and the stones became folklore.