Humans have long comprehended the need to be able to measure things such as time, length, weight, and mass, and for more than 6,000 years they have been perfecting their means of doing so. In fact, as long ago as the 4th millennium, civilized peoples in Egypt and Mesopotamia were discovering ways to measure an object’s weight. The tiniest division of weight during the Bronze Age was 1.704 mm, achieved by the people of the Indus Valley.
Various methods were practiced. One was to fill a gourd or vessel with wheat grains or some other kind of seed and counting them in order to weigh silver or gold items. Our present term “caret” came from a time when carob seeds were used to weigh these precious metals and gems.
In the modern age,innumerable businesses have to be able to trust the perfect accuracy of the weights and balances they use. Unbelieveably precise scales and balances are needed in laboratories of all types. Huge capacity scales for freight are required in the shipping business. A wide variety of scales fill the requirements of post offices, grocers, food handlers, and manufacturers of all kinds.
One of the most trusted names in the weights and measures industry is Mettler Toledo. The result of a merger of the Swiss company Mettler, which had an incomparable reputation for precision analytical instruments, with the American company Toledo Scale Corporation, the largest producer of industrial and retail scales in the United States. It was a wonderful marriage.
The merger created a corporation with the ability to offer solutions for companies in a plethora of areas. Imagine the gulf between the precision needed for a lab technician measuring a chemical to the ten millionth of a gram and the cabability to weigh the contents of a large shipping crate. Today, laboratories and research facilities worldwide rely on the extensive line of scales, balances, and other precision instruments produced by Mettler Toledo. From process analysis to laboratory weighing equipment, Mettler Toledo offers the best equipment available.
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