Precise measurements, not just imagination, drive scientific breakthroughs. From Galileo's telescope revealing Jupiter's moons to LIGO detecting gravitational waves, unblinking instruments ...

I needed a temperature controller module recently, so off I went to Banggood to order one. As one does I found myself browsing, one thing led to another, and I bought a micrometer screw gauge. While ...

In 2018, life sciences and analytical instrument makers kept up the momentum of the last few years: overall instrument sales for the 20 firms that C&EN tracks rose 6.2%. Although economic conditions ...

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The SJ-220 portable surface roughness measuring instrument has touchscreen and wireless capabilities. The intuitive touchscreen has a user interface that supports fingertip operations, including flick ...

Most oscilloscopes these days offer from 25 to 50 automated basic measurements with optional measurements for specialized analysis running close to 100. With all this measurement horsepower available ...

I get this question quite often. With designs increasingly using serial data buses, engineers are looking for the best way to evaluate digital timing systems, clock performance, and debug causes of ...

ISA recently published the third edition of Calibration Handbook of Measuring Instruments by Alessandro Brunelli. In this Q&A feature, Brunelli highlights the focus, importance, and differentiating ...

As the name suggests Five combines a variety of different drawing, measuring and drafting tools into one handy device offering a compact marking and measuring tool designed by Franck Grossel based in ...

How innovations in visibility, usability, and smart sensing are changing who uses tools—and how. For centuries, measurement tools have been essential to architecture, engineering, construction, real ...

The global measurement instrumentation market is experiencing robust growth, propelled by Industry 4.0, the expansion of ...