Percival Everitt doesn't even have a Wikipedia page, but video game historian Alex Smith describes this Norfolk-born engineer as the “father of the coin-op industry”. This weekend in 1884 he patented ...

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 ...

It was during the 1920s and ‘30s that coin-operated scales were important. The first coin scales were made in Germany in 1885, and by 1889, the National Scale Company was manufacturing in the United ...

Old-fashioned scales carry a lot of symbolic significance, associated as they are with perfect balance and precise measurement and, metaphorically, with the concept of justice. Many collectors are ...

Even as size zero takes over and waist sizes scramble at getting narrower, the psychedelic coin-operated weighing machines synonymous with railway stations, are losing their charm. MUMBAI: Even as ...