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Re:Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life by telesilla on Friday August 25, 2017 @05:30AM (#15097187)
The reference manual itself is fascinating:

http://design.data.free.fr/RUCHE/documents/Ergonomie%20Henry...

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Re:Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life by kwhitefoot on Friday August 25, 2017 @06:26AM (#15097396)
Thank you for finding that. It really is fascinating. Mind you most of the numbers need updating :-)

U.S. 50. %tile weight is now 194.7 lb not 161.9 lb and I suspect that the 97.5 %tile is even worse (but a cursory search didn't find any data).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body_weight#By_country

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Re:Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life by mattlondon on Friday August 25, 2017 @07:32AM (#15097670)
Amazing - thanks.

I thought the reliability statistics for the different dial types was fascinating.

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