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2. Weighing of souls - Wikipedia

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   Archangel Michael is commonly depicted holding scales to weigh the souls of people on Judgement Day. The weighing of souls ( Ancient Greek: psychostasia) [ 1] is a religious motif in which a person's life is assessed by weighing their soul (or some other part of them) immediately before or after death in order to judge their fate. [ 2]

3. Official Table of Drops - Wikipedia

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   The Official Table of Drops, formerly issued by the British Home Office, is a manual which is used to calculate the appropriate length of rope for long drop hangings . Following a series of failed hangings, including those of John Babbacombe Lee, a committee chaired by Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare was formed in 1886 to discover and report on ...

4. Weighing scale - Wikipedia

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   A mechanical scale or balance is used to describe a weighing device that is used to measure the mass, force exertion, tension, and resistance of an object without the need of a power supply. Types of mechanical scales include decimal balances, spring scales, hanging scales, triple beam balances, and force gauges .

5. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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   The earliest depiction of a clock powered by a hanging weight is from the Bible of St Louis, an illuminated manuscript made between 1226 and 1234 that shows a clock being slowed by water acting on a wheel. The illustration seems to show that weight-driven clocks were invented in western Europe. [79]

6. Spring scale - Wikipedia

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   Spring scale. A spring scale, spring balance or newton meter is a type of mechanical force gauge or weighing scale. It consists of a spring fixed at one end with a hook to attach an object at the other. [1] It works in accordance with Hooke's Law, which states that the force needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance scales linearly ...

7. 21 grams experiment - Wikipedia

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   The 21 grams experiment refers to a study published in 1907 by Duncan MacDougall, a physician from Haverhill, Massachusetts. MacDougall hypothesized that souls have physical weight, and attempted to measure the mass lost by a human when the soul departed the body. MacDougall attempted to measure the mass change of six patients at the moment of ...