Steel yard balance swing customers View of Stephenson and Giles

View of Stephenson and Giles Starch Works at Old Ford

5th July 1964

with a border containing items used by the laplanders and scenes of a reindeer pulling a sleigh and carriage

As his health failed

30th July 1970

Steel yard balance swing customers View of Stephenson and GilesFront 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.