Measure for Measure - Weight (BBC) (21st May 1993) VHSRip (DivX)

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Measure for Measure - Weight
We weigh in at birth and are slaves to the scales for the next three score years and ten.
Whether we're baking a cake, cooking up some chemistry or loading a lorry, we need to know exactly how light or heavy objects are.
When trade started primitive people started to weigh things, at first by simply lifting and comparing.
Some handy object would serve as a crude standard to weigh things against.
A more accurate means of measurement was soon needed and in time someone came up with a machine which along with a wheel
and a lever is one of the few really fundamental inventions of pre-history. The balance.

[img=http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7118/46pq5.jpg]Why is Lb an abbreviation for pound?Why is a bakers dozen so called?Yorkshireman Brian Glover (GRHS) includes plenty of humour as he tells the history of weighing in another brilliantprogramme shown on BBC2 in 1993.Duration: 30minsNarrator: Brian GloverMr Measurement: Justin CaseDirector: Bryn HigginsProduction Company: Windfall FilmsSponsor: BBC EducationProducers: Ian Duncan and Bryn HigginsEditor: Paul ShepardVideo: DivX 5 720x536 25.00fps 1538KbpsAudio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 44100Hz 128Kbps===============================Some of the other rather spiffing shows available now and always if you signup free @ www.TheBox.bz:Comedy: The Office, Peep Show, Coupling, Chef, Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, The IT Crowd, Brass Eye, Nathan Barley, Young Ones, Monty Python, Blackadder, Alan Partridge, Father Ted, Coupling, Little Britain, Mr Bean, Extras, Green Wing, Mighty BooshDrama: Casualty, Holby City, The Bill, Hustle, Skins, Shameless, Ashes To AshesEntertainment: Faking It, Derren Brown, Scrapheap Challenge, Strictly Come Dancing, Wife SwapGame/Quiz Shows: Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Have I Got News For You, Deal Or No Deal (UK), Q.I.Education/Documentary: Planet Earth, Horizon, Panorama, Mark Thomas (Comedy) ProductFood: Hell's Kitchen, Jamie Oliver, The F Word, Kitchen Nightmares, Masterchef, Great British Menu, Gordon Ramsay's CookalongHome/Property/Garden: Property Ladder, How Clean Is Your House?, Changing Rooms, Grand Designs, Homes Under The Hammer, To Buy Or Not To BuyMotoring: Top Gear, Fifth GearMusic: Top Of The Pops, Jools Holland, GlastonburyReality: Big Brother, Celebrity Big Brother, I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!, Any Dream Will Do, Grease, Pop Idol, Wife Swap, X Factor, Badger Or Bust, Apprentice UK, Dragons' Den, Britain's Got TalentSci-Fi: Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Torchwood, PrimevalSport: Football (Soccer), Cricket, Rugby, Snooker, Darts, Formula One (F1GP)Soaps: Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Neighbours, HollyoaksStyle/Fashion: What Not To Wear, Project CatwalkKids: Teletubbies, Blue Peter, Tikkabilla, Andy Pandy, Postman Pat, Shoebox Zoo, Brum, Bob The Builder, Young Dracula, Sarah Jane Adventures, Shaun The Sheep