enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. L. S. Starrett Company - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._S._Starrett_Company

   In 1878 Laroy S. Starrett invented and patented the first combination square, [4] and in 1880 he founded the L.S. Starrett Company in Athol, Massachusetts, in order to produce it and other precision tools. In 1882, Starrett traveled to London and Paris to appoint sales representatives, thereby starting up the international marketing of his ...

3. Micrometer (device) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrometer_(device)

   Tube micrometers have a cylindrical anvil positioned perpendicularly to a spindle and is used to measure the thickness of tubes. Micrometer stops are micrometer heads that are mounted on the table of a manual milling machine, bedways of a lathe, or other machine tool, in place of simple stops. They help the operator to position the table or ...

4. Calipers - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calipers

   A single tool might be referred to as a caliper or as calipers — a plural only (plurale tantum) form, like scissors or glasses. Colloquially, the phrase "pair of verniers" or just "vernier" might refer to a vernier caliper. In loose colloquial usage, these phrases may also refer to other kinds of calipers, although they involve no vernier scale.

5. Brown & Sharpe - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_&_Sharpe

   Brown & Sharpe is a division of Hexagon AB, a Swedish multinational corporation focused mainly on metrological tools and technology. During the 19th and 20th centuries, Brown & Sharpe was one of the best-known and most influential machine tool builders and was a leading manufacturer of instruments for machinists (such as micrometers and indicators).

6. Combination square - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_square

   Though some earlier 19th century tools were called combination squares, the modern combination square was invented in the late 1870s by American inventor Laroy S. Starrett, and patented in 1879. [note 1] [8] In 1880 he founded the L. S. Starrett Company in Athol, Massachusetts, United States. The tool was originally designed for machinists, but ...

7. List of measuring instruments - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_measuring_instruments

   micrometer: small distances multimeter: electrical potential, resistance, and current nephoscope: to measure the speed and direction of clouds nephelometer: particle in a liquid odometer: distance travelled ohmmeter: electrical resistance opisometer: lengths of arbitrary curved lines orchidometer: testicle size in male humans oscilloscope ...