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Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

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

Set of Whitworth distance gauges (end gauges)

1860-1895

Three gauges, tool for securing interchangeability in photographic lenses and two samples of same.

1892

Circular instrument dividing engine

1778

Caliper stringing gauge

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

setting tool

1907

setting gauge

1907

setting dial

1907

ring gauge

1907

screw plug gauge

1907

ring gauge

1907

ring gauge

1907

Micrometer in wooden case

1913-1929

Automatic micrometer

1850-1900