Steel yard balance swing customers Seaside resort of Minehead

Seaside resort of Minehead

On her right a group of men in armour appear to be fleeing the scene

As his health failed

View of Stephenson and Giles Starch Works at Old Ford

5th July 1964

Steel yard balance swing customers Seaside resort of MineheadFront 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.