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Until the seventeenth century, every scale was a version of which type?

ASpring scale
BDigital scale
CBalance scale
DStrain gauge scale
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Balance scale
1. The pan balance is a very old and simple device. 2. Spring scales came much later, from the 1770s. 3. So all scales until the seventeenth century AD were variations on the balance scale. _Source: Wikipedia, Weighing scale, Pan balance, History_
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