For two decades, the 67-year-old with leukemia has made a ritual trek to consult a 108-year-old weighing scale. He walks as far as 10 blocks to weigh himself on this nicked, old device in front of ...

LOS ANGELES — Johnny Smith of Hollywood, Calif., stands before the platform like a man before an altar. He steps up, he deposits his dime, then he holds his breath as the thin, red dial swings ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a set of iron weights shaped like ancient Greek letters, in the ruins of the Greco-Roman ...

Digital scales have extra features, but you may not need them . Digital scales, meanwhile, may come with a number of other useful features like recording your history of weigh-ins.