Sinopsis
Mastering optical measurement tools for precision work This book offers a clear, practical overview of how optical measuring instruments are built and used. It explains how design, materials, and the user’s needs shape reliable tools, from classic theodolites to modern spectrometers.
The text frames the topic with history, guiding principles, and real-world considerations. It highlights how human observation, vernier readings, and optical techniques combine to produce accurate measurements while noting common sources of error and how to minimize them.
What you’ll experience
- A survey of key instruments and their construction, purpose, and use
- Insights into reading scales, micrometers, and comparison methods for accuracy
- Explanations of common instrument types, from divided circles to range-finders and photometric devices
- Practical discussion of errors, calibration, and achieving reliable results in the workshop
Ideal for readers of technical reference and practitioners who work with precision optical tools, instrument makers, and teachers seeking practical context for measurement methods.
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Excerpt from Optical Measuring Instruments: Their Construction, Theory, and Use
The present book makes no pretence of instructing the Optical scientific instrument maker in his own work, but since it presents some Of the views of the user of instruments, and since it covers a range of instruments wider than the production of most factories, it may prove of some interest to commercial firms.
NO user of a tool can study it too thoroughly, and he will learn a lesson of no little value if he realizes that, in the use of an Optical instrument, the eye and, in fact, the whole mind and body are equally concerned in obtaining the required results.
The author will feel amply repaid, however, if it should prove that the book appeals to teachers of science. Are there not many parts of typical physics courses which could with advantage be replaced by more modern material which, while equally educational, is more likely to find direct application in practice? The study of instruments yields such material in abundance.
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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.
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Excerpt from Optical Measuring Instruments: Their Construction, Theory, and Use
I accede with pleasure to the request that I should write a Foreword for the book of my colleague, Dr. Martin, on Optical Measuring Instruments. More especially do I do so, because it was at my invitation that he originally turned his attention to the subject, when the Department of Optical Engineering and Applied Optics was founded at the Imperial College.
In Dr. Martin's book the student will find, brought together for the first time, descriptions of a number of well-selected typical instruments, which embody and exemplify in their design, construction, and use, optical principles and devices of great interest and of wide application - information which hitherto it has been very difficult if not impossible to obtain except by reference to the records of the Patent Office, or those of learned societies. This bringing together of cognate matter should be of great value and convenience to everyone interested in the application of optical measuring means to instruments of precision generally.
The limitations, for measuring purposes, of the human eye were humorously brought out by a friend of mine - a famous inventor of range-finders - when, some years ago, he deplored the fact that nature had not seen fit to impress our retinas with stereoscopic scales, by means of which ranges could be accurately determined without any instrumental aid.
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.
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