Download or read book The Precision Makers written by Mari E. W. Williams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The precision instruments industry has been an important and revealing sector of the high technology industry. This volume traces its development in Britain and France during the crucial period of 1870-1939.
Download or read book Instruments Travel and Science written by Marie Noëlle Bourguet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are now accustomed to conceive of science as an instrumental activity, producing numbers, measurements and graphs by means of sophisticated devices. This book investigates the historical process that gave rise to this instrumental culture. The contributors trace the displacement of instruments across the globe, the spread of practices or precision and the circulation and appropriation of skills and knowledge. Through comparative and contextual approaches, the volume confronts the tension between the local and the global, examining the process of the universalization of science. Bringing together case studies ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, contributors discuss French, German and British initiatives, as well as the knowledge and techniques of travellers in countries such as India, Africa, South East Asia and the Americas. Students and researchers interested in the history of science in both Western and non-Western cultures will find this book a valuable and thought-provoking read.
Download or read book Fine Mechanisms and Precision Instruments written by Władysław Tryliński and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1971 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Values of Precision written by M. Norton Wise and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Values of Precision examines how exactitude has come to occupy such a prominent place in Western culture. What has been the value of numerical values? Beginning with the late eighteenth century and continuing into the twentieth, the essays in this volume support the view that centralizing states--with their increasingly widespread bureaucracies for managing trade, taxation, and armies--and large-scale commercial enterprises--with their requirements for standardization and mass production--have been the major promoters of numerical precision. Taking advantage of the resources available, scientists and engineers have entered a symbiotic relationship with state and industry, which in turn has led to increasingly refined measures in ever-widening domains of the natural and social world. At the heart of this book, therefore, is an inquiry into the capacity of numbers and instruments to travel across boundaries of culture and materials. Many of the papers focus attention on disagreements about the significance and the credibility of particular sorts of measurements deployed to support particular claims, as in the measures of the population of France, the electrical resistance of copper, or the solvency of insurance companies. At the same time they display the deeply cultural character of precision values. Contributors to the volume include Ken Alder, Graeme J. N. Gooday, Jan Golinski, Frederic L. Holmes, Kathryn M. Olesko, Theodore M. Porter, Andrea Rusnock, Simon Schaffer, George Sweetnam, Andrew Warwick, and M. Norton Wise.
Download or read book Precision Instruments for Machine Shop Work written by George Abram Robe and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strictly First class Instruments of Precision written by Brandis & Sons Manufacturing Co and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating Measurement Accuracy written by Semyon G Rabinovich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Evaluating Measurement Accuracy, 2nd Edition” is intended for those who are concerned with measurements in any field of science or technology. It reflects the latest developments in metrology and offers new results, but is designed to be accessible to readers at different levels: scientists who advance the field of metrology, engineers and experimental scientists who use measurements as tool in their professions, students and graduate students in natural sciences and engineering, and, in parts describing practical recommendations, technicians performing mass measurements in industry, quality control, and trade. This book presents material from the practical perspective and offers solutions and recommendations for problems that arise in conducting real-life measurements. This new edition adds a method for estimating accuracy of indirect measurements with independent arguments, whose development Dr. Rabinovich was able to complete very recently. This method, which is called the Method of Enumeration, produces estimates that are no longer approximate, similar to the way the method of reduction described in the first edition removed approximation in estimating uncertainty of indirect measurements with dependent arguments. The method of enumeration completes addressing the range of problems whose solutions signify the emergence of the new theory of accuracy of measurements. A new method is added for building a composition of histograms, and this method forms a theoretical basis for the method of enumeration.Additionally, as a companion to this book, a concise practical guide that assembles simple step-by-step procedures for typical tasks the practitioners are likely to encounter in measurement accuracy estimation is available at SpringerLink.
Download or read book Fine Mechanisms and Precision Instruments written by Władysław Tryliński and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Basics of Precision Engineering written by Richard Leach and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in engineering precision have tracked with technological progress for hundreds of years. Over the last few decades, precision engineering has been the specific focus of research on an international scale. The outcome of this effort has been the establishment of a broad range of engineering principles and techniques that form the foundation of precision design. Today’s precision manufacturing machines and measuring instruments represent highly specialised processes that combine deterministic engineering with metrology. Spanning a broad range of technology applications, precision engineering principles frequently bring together scientific ideas drawn from mechanics, materials, optics, electronics, control, thermo-mechanics, dynamics, and software engineering. This book provides a collection of these principles in a single source. Each topic is presented at a level suitable for both undergraduate students and precision engineers in the field. Also included is a wealth of references and example problems to consolidate ideas, and help guide the interested reader to more advanced literature on specific implementations.
Download or read book The Manufacture of Precision Instruments written by Frederick John Jobst and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mechanic s Guide to Precision Measuring Tools written by Forbes Aird and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're a do-it-yourselfer or a professional mechanic, precision quality tools are essential. Forbes Aird discusses the importance of measurement and accuracy, and moves through the various instruments used to accomplish specific tasks: micrometers, calipers, ammeters, multimeters, thermometers, dial indicators, compression gauges, vacuum gauges, torque wrenches, timing wheels and more. Detailed photos and diagrams show you the correct techniques to ensure accurate measurements the first time, and every time!
Download or read book Precision Drawing Instruments and Parts Thereof Wholly Or in Chief Value of Metal written by United States Tariff Commission and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Precision Instrumentation and Measurement written by Yusaku Fuji and published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The aim of this unique collection of peer-reviewed papers is to deepen the mutual understanding of researchers in precision measurement and related fields and to to initiate joint international research among participants.
Download or read book Instruments of Precision written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precision instruments to measure microscopes, telescopes, and other optical devices.
Download or read book How Round Is Your Circle written by John Bryant and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you draw a straight line? How do you determine if a circle is really round? These may sound like simple or even trivial mathematical problems, but to an engineer the answers can mean the difference between success and failure. How Round Is Your Circle? invites readers to explore many of the same fundamental questions that working engineers deal with every day--it's challenging, hands-on, and fun. John Bryant and Chris Sangwin illustrate how physical models are created from abstract mathematical ones. Using elementary geometry and trigonometry, they guide readers through paper-and-pencil reconstructions of mathematical problems and show them how to construct actual physical models themselves--directions included. It's an effective and entertaining way to explain how applied mathematics and engineering work together to solve problems, everything from keeping a piston aligned in its cylinder to ensuring that automotive driveshafts rotate smoothly. Intriguingly, checking the roundness of a manufactured object is trickier than one might think. When does the width of a saw blade affect an engineer's calculations--or, for that matter, the width of a physical line? When does a measurement need to be exact and when will an approximation suffice? Bryant and Sangwin tackle questions like these and enliven their discussions with many fascinating highlights from engineering history. Generously illustrated, How Round Is Your Circle? reveals some of the hidden complexities in everyday things.
Download or read book Standard Instruments of Precision 1918 Classic Reprint written by C. L. Berger and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Standard Instruments of Precision, 1918 HE instruments enumerated in this catalog, and described in the Manual, are all of our own design and regular manufacture. Full supplies of Engineers' and Surveyors' Instruments will be kept on hand. The demand is at times so great. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Instruments of Precision written by Scientific Appliances, Inc., Urbana, Ill and published by . This book was released on 1935* with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
