Roman scales

I’m really fond of Eulàlia Petit’s Barcelonetes because, unlike the overwhelming majority of distinctly underwhelming blogs here, it provides useful stuff and not house, garden and kitchen chitchat. Take, for example, this drawing of a vendor using simple Roman scales (una romana) in a Montpellier market. Close-ups of others here and here, and here’s a patent application by Javier Fernández Paez for a fried potato dispensing machine based around the same technology.

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Comments

1. Eulàlia Petit sez:
   April 27th, 2006 at 12:07

   Glups…! Moltes gràcies pel comentari tan amable…
   Eulàlia

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