Mistakes, in fact, are more easily guarded against than is the case when using the micrometers directly.
In a shop where a set of large micrometers is not kept, this arrangement is very useful.
Graduations on the Fractional-reading Micrometer] Micrometers may also be graduated as in Fig.
Various micrometers have been invented besides the heliometer for measuring by double image.
The reading micrometers e, f also serve to measure, independently, the separation of the segments, by scales attached to the slides; such measurements can be employed as a check on those made by the screws.
Yet the beautiful images which these micrometers give permit the measurement of very difficult objects as a check on measures with the parallel-wire micrometer.
They provided a splendid, rigidly mounted, equatorial stand, fitted with every luxury in the way of slow motion, and scales for measuring the displacement of the segments were read by powerful micrometersfrom the eye-end.
Indeed, as if no circumstance in the confirmation should be wanting, the diameter of the planet, as measured by the micrometers at Berlin, proved to be practically coincident with that anticipated by Le Verrier.
The difficulty in the process arises from the fact that these ellipses are so small that our micrometers often fail to detect them.
Two or three smaller micrometers having a maximum range of two or three inches will also be found valuable, as most of the measurements will be made with these tools which will be much easier to handle than the larger sizes.
Micrometers are made in many sizes, ranging from those having a maximum opening of one inch to special large forms that will measure forty or more inches.
Both of the micrometers shown have a small knurled knob at the end of the barrel.
Two forms of micrometers for external measurements are shown at Fig.
As set in the illustration, the metric micrometersshow a space of 13.
By having two micrometers or gages, one set for the radial dimension x and the other for the chordal distance y, the work may be done in a comparatively short time.
The micrometers of Malvasia, and later of Auzout and Picard, are the development of this discovery.
His micrometers for measuring position angles, his lamp micrometer, the method of limiting apertures, and the methods he used for viewing the sun may be mentioned among these.
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