World’s Heaviest Weight

World’s Heaviest Weight
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The million-pound deadweight machine inside a lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md. After a calibration job, when the stack of 50,000-pound disks are once again lowered to the ground, the weights tend to “rumble” like a bull elephant, according to NIST workers.
World's Heaviest Weight
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