WHAT IS MEASURING INSTRUMENTS?

A measuring instrument is a device for measuring a physical quantity.

Measurement is the activity obtaining and comparing physical
quantities of real-world objects and events.
Measuring instrument’s use, are the means by which these relations
of numbers is obtained.

TWO TYPES OF MEASUREMENTS

1. The English system of measurement
grew out of the creative way that people measured for
themselves. For example, people measured shorter distances
on the ground with their feet.
2. Metric system

based on the meter. The most common units in the

automotive industry are the centimeter and millimeter.
Millimeters are used to express close tolerances of
engine measurements. Metric system is based on
divisions of ten.
SOME EXAMPLE OF
MEASURING
INSTRUMENTS
 CALIPER

is a device used to measure the distance

between two opposite sides of an object.
MICROMETE
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Instrument that measure the thickness or the
diameter of relatively small parts.
DEPTH GAUGE

It is a gauge for measuring the depth of

holes, grooves, or concavities.
 VOLT METER

A voltmeter is an instrument used for

measuring electrical potential difference
between two points in an electric circuit.
WATTMETER

is an instrument for measuring the electrical

power (or the supply rate of electrical energy)
in watts of any given circuit.
instrument measuring the rotation speed of a
shaft or disk as in a motor or other machine
tachometer can also be used to measure
flow of liquid by attaching a wheel with
inclined vanes
 OSCILLOSCOPE

commonly used to observe the exact wave

shape of an electrical signal.
Oscilloscopes are usually calibrated so that
voltage and time can be read as well as
possible by the eye.
THREAD SNAP GAUGE

snap guage are often quantity of workpiece

must be inspected. The snap guage has
fauranvils or jaws, the first one or pair are
using upper limitof the part and the inner set
adjusted to the lower limit of the part.
DIAL INDICATOR
instrument used to accurately measure small
linear distances and are frequently use in
industrial and mechanical processes.
FEELER GAUGE

used to measure gap with or clearance

between surface and bearings.
VERNIER CALIPER
It is a precision tool used to measure a small
distance with high accuracy.
TELESCOPIC FEELER GAUGE

It is also known as tongue guage, and it

consist of long feeler guage inside a cover
with tongue or curved edge,
POKER GAUGE
This guage is used to measure propeller stem
shaft clearance, also known as propeller
wear down.
BRIDGE GAUGE

Bridge guages are used to measure the

amount of wear of main engine bearing.
Typically the upper bearing keep is removed
and clearance is measured for the journal.
BORE GAUGE

A dial or vernier bore guage measure a boar

directly.
TELESCOPIC GAUGE
these are range of gauges that are used to
measure bore size, by transferring the
internal dimension to a remote measuring
tool.
 THERMOMETER

A thermometer is a device that measures

temperature or a temperature radiant.
WEIGHING SCALE
SPRING WEIGH D I G I TA L W E I G H I N G
SCALE SCALE

Weighing scales are devices to measure

weight or calculate mass.
SPRING BALANCE

It measures weight by balancing the force

due to gravity againts the force on a spring,
RULERS AND TAPE

The most common method of obtaining

simple measurements of length is by the
ruler or tape
SUNDIAL

The sundial was invented in ancient Egypt and was also used in
ancient China, Greece, and Rome. Sundials consist of a shadow-
maker known as a gnomon, which casts a shadow onto a surface
below, usually marked with the hour. As the sun moves through
the sky, the shadow moves accordingly, indicating the time of day.
CANDLES

Candles are simple time-

telling devices which work
simply by burning at a fixed
rate. To indicate the time,
candles are marked with
hours.
HOURGLASS

The hourglass tells time roughly in terms

of an amount of sand which pours
through a small hole at a nearly fixed
rate. As the name implies, the sand in
most hourglasses pours for one hour. Egg
timers, which run out in 3 to 5 minutes,
are small versions of hourglasses.
Hourglasses were once used in
navigation.
WATERCLOCK

The water clock was a clock commonly used

in ancient and medieval times. It works by
maintaining a steady flow of water.
MECHANICAL CLOCK

The mechanical clock was an improvement of the water

clock developed around 1280. Mechanical clocks work by
hanging a weight from a string and using an escapement
to make the clock tick at a nearly fixed rate.
PENDULUM

The next significant improvement

in time measurement was the
pendulum clock. Galileo Galilei
discovered the principle of the
pendulum in 1581 and Christian
Huygens invented the pendulum
clock in 1656. Until the 1930s,
the most accurate clocks were
pendulum clocks.
CHRONOMETER

Navigators needed a very accurate

portable seaworthy clock in order to
measure longitude on long sea voyages.
John Harrison built the H4 Chronometer
in 1761 for this purpose. Chronometers
like this were used on ships until they
were replaced by more accurate quartz
clocks in the 1970s
ATOMIC CLOCK The atomic clock is the most
accurate clock currently in
use. The first atomic clock
was built in 1949 at the U.S.
National Bureau of Standards
(NBS). The first accurate
atomic clock, based on the
transition of the cesium-133
atom, was built by Louis
Essen in 1955 at the National
Physical Laboratory in the
UK. This led to the
internationally agreed
definition of the second being
based on atomic time. With
an accuracy of 1 part in
10^15 or 0.1 ns per day, the
NIST-F1, built in 1999 at the
National Institute of
Standards and Technology
(NIST, formerly NBS), is the
world's most accurate clock.
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