Tale of the Scale

In the mid-1980s, Solly Angel had a technological mini-vision. He saw in his mind''s eye a quarter-inch thick personal scale weighing a pound--a travel scale--and he decided to make it a reality, to bring it to market. The Tale of the Scale is a rare first-person account of the process of invention and design as it unfolds in the remaking of the familiar bathroom scale. It is rare because invento...