Gold Rush in California

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The Scales

• Scales is the measurement they use to measure the gold in the gold rush.
• It have the middle stand with 2 arms over the top, balance in the center of the scales on each site of the arm.
• There are 2 metal plate attached by chain

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• spring scales came into Unite Kingdom after 1840.
• They could work more quickly and read quickly,they did not have to be carefully balanced with each measurement.

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• The art measurement is surely one of pratice which has set the human race.
• They created it for understanding how we can make it work for us.

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• In 1848 James Marshall found a shiny metal in the Tail race at Sutter's Mill.
• 1849 when word finally spread around the world and the influx of people really began.
• A total of 2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted from the area during the Gold Rush which Peaked in 1852.

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• 49ers represent in California culture.
• The news of gold brought mostly by selling ships and covered wagons some 300,000 gold seekers called "forty-niners" as in 1849 to California.
• The largest group of forty niners in 1849 were Americans, arriving by the tens of thousands overland across the continent and along various salling routes

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How does scales compare to my culture ?

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• In my country measure is different with the U.S
• In my country use ki-lo-gam (kg) and in the U.S is pound (lbs)

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• Long time ago they use scales for measure rice
• Now they use for vegetable and for fruit

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