This device was patented in 1849 by Eugene Bourdon. The patent bought out by Edward Ashcroft in 1852 and is used to measure a unit of force x area.
What is the pressure gauge.
100
Scientific notation expressed as 1 x 10e-18.
What is atto.
100
They are the largest online retailer in the U.S.
Who is Amazon.
100
This is the most common working standard for dimensional measurements.
What is the Gage Block.
100
This is the base SI unit for electrical quantities.
What is the Ampere.
200
This scientist's work includes electro-magnetism and AC current. Credited with many patents from electricity to radio transmission.
Who is Nikola Tesla. [Tesla]
200
This error is caused by an incorrect angle when reading between two graduations.
What is parallax error.
200
Rocky Balboa's girlfriend/wife first name.
Who is Adrian.
200
This temperature measuring device requires either an actual or a simulated reference temperature.
What is a Thermocouple.
200
This is the largest single contributor to the uncertainty of dimensional measurements.
What is Temperature.
300
What can be considered the first modern thermometer, the mercury thermometer with a standardized scale was invented by this person in 1724.
Who was Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. [Fahrenheit]
300
This document (Calibration Standard) was adopted to provide guidance for our Level 4 calibrations to provide a Probability of False Accept (PFA) of <2%.
What is ANSI/NCSL Z540.3.
300
Music is Metrology:
This standard concert pitch is the most common musical note (tone) commonly tested with a tuning fork and has a frequency of 440 Hz.
What is A.
300
This technical organization has published thousands of test methods, many of which include calibration methods.
What is ASTM.
300
This measurement quantity can attain uncertainties rivaling those of mass measurements.
What is Electrical.
400
This Polish physicist and chemist, discovered radiation and helped to apply it in the field of X ray who also a Nobel Prize in both Chemistry and Physics.
Who is Marie Curie. [Curie]
400
This is defined as the ability of a measuring instrument to maintain its metrological characteristics.
What is stability.
400
He was the first commander of U.S. troops in South Korea.
Who was General Douglas MacArthur.
400
Electronic digital calipers have one important advantage over both vernier and dial calipers.
What is they are easier to read.
400
Tilting the column of a liquid manometer for measuring low pressures will do this.
What is Increase the Resolution.
500
This Italian physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery.
*Hint - He also discoverer of methane.
Who is Alessandro Volta. [Volta]
500
Given the equation describing measurement components, M = T + E. If M is the measured value and E is the error, what is T?
What is the True Value.
500
This part of a firearm serves to remove brass cases of fired ammunition after the ammunition has been fired.
What is the extractor.
500
At this temperature the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales indicate the same numerical value.
What is -40 degrees.
500
This is used as the most accurate method of measuring humidity.