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Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Whitworth standard wire gauge

1869 to 1897

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Differential Screw Micrometer and case

1801-1811

digital L.C.D. micrometer

circa 1981

Differential Screw Micrometer, 1801-1811

1801-1811

Large Vernier Calliper for Manufacturing Large Calibre Weapons, 1826-1867

1826

Watchmaker's sector proportional gauge

N. K.

Brass micrometer type gauge comparator.

Circular Instrument Dividing Engine

1919

Wedge gauge

not Known

Steel wedge gauge

Vernier depth gauge

Distance measure

Metal factors ruler incorporating sliding caliper marked Thomas Bradburn and Sons

Circular instrument dividing engine

1778

Girth tape

Pair of Carl Zeiss dial type measuring gauges

bench micrometer

1881

Right-angle gauge, incorporating spirit level

Set of Johansson gauge blocks, c 1900.

1896-1918

Slocomb digital micrometer

1920-1939

frame micrometer

1826-1894

Miniature micrometer by Borletti of Milan in a small pocket

Pair of Vee supports for Whitworth measuring machine (M.1671)

"0-2" Bench Micrometer

1944

Screw pitch caliper with a Boxford dial gauge

1942

digital readout micrometer

pat 1893.

Direct digital display micrometer made by Brown and Sharpe

1922-1928

early metric micrometer

1878

Combined Vernier callipers and depth gauge

1842-1846

Girth tape

internal and external gauges

1835-1865

Ship's plate thickness measuring gauge with vernier scale.

not known

Wire diameter gauge

Not known

Eccentric wire-gauge

Vernier caliper for workshop use

circa 1830

American Standard Wire Gauge

circa 1858

Thickness gauge by Weifs

Not known

Surface plate; very smooth surface produced by lapping

1919

Hirth minimeter

circa 1920; 1907

Experimental screw diameter measuring machine

1915

'Holdens' minimeter comparator

1917-1919

O-VEE Screw thread comparator

thickness measurer

circa 1890

Double ended metric screw plug gauge

1907