Measurement

By Herbert Stone, Kiril Bankov, Rebecca N. Bleibaum, Heather A. Thomas. 2013

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THE extended use in industry of more accurate measuring instruments of all kinds led the Chamber of Commerce of Paris in 1932 to institute at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers a course of lectures on measurement which have been delivered annually by Prof. Pierre Fleury of the University of Lille. They cover units and standards, legislation, calculation for all types of measurement, details of the methods available for making measurements in geometry, kinematics, statics, dynamics, heat, sound, light and radiology. As no treatise existed in French dealing with these subjects completely, Prof. Fleury decided to compile a work covering the whole field, and the first part, entitled “Generalites sur les mesures”, appears as No. 236 of the series of “Ac-tualites scientifique et industrielle” (Paris: Hermann et Cie. 15 francs). It is a pamphlet of about 80 pages, and deals with choice of methods, estimation of errors, calculations and verifications, units and standards. With six others which are to appear in the same series, it will constitute Prof. Fleury's “LeQons de Metrologie generale et appliquee” and should prove of great value in introducing more systematic methods into industry.

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