Labels:text | book | paper OCR: A B SALTER WEIGHING HORACE DE SAUSSURE COMPANY 1740-1799 E F BATHROOM HORACE DE SAUSSURE was G bom in Geneva, Switzerland. H I scales date He was interested in botany from back to 1490, an early age, and spent a lot of time K when the Italian examining plants in the Swiss Alps. -- HE ZO inventor and It was on one such expedition in painter Leonardo the summer of 1777 that Saussure da Vinci made a dial balance. However, it was not until 1898 constructed one of the very earliest P solar heaters, called a flat-plate that the Salter Weighing Company collector. It consisted of a simple R of England made a practical set of wooden box with a glass top and a S bathroom scales called the Salter black base. It concentrated the sun's Midget. These scales were over 2 feet (0.6 m) high. energy onto a central chamber in which he cooked some soup. 11 W X Y Bathroom Scales Solar Heater 7 M
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