Measure instruments: distances, angles


 

 

 

   

SLIDE RULE

 
 School
  Spano

  Function
  To show the functioning of the slide-rule
Maker: Price: Purchase date: 1936

  Description
  Two meter length model with numeration and graduation visible from a distance.

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MODEL OF RECTILINEAR VERNIER

 
 School
  Castelvė

  Function
  Demonstrative model.
Maker:
Paravia - Turin
Price: L 5 Purchase date : Cat. 1923

  Description
  Wooden model with engraved scale.

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MODEL OF CALLIPER WITH VERNIER READING TO 1/20TH

 
 School
  Spano

  Function
  The model is made in hard wood and we can use it as a model of the vernier.
Maker:
Officine Galileo - Florence
Price: L 65 Purchase date: 1935

  Description
  The scale and the vernier have the centrimetic division visible from afar. The length is 50 cm.

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MICROMETER

 
 School
  Spano(1),   Castelvė (2)

  Function
  To measure small distances.
Maker:
Officine Galileo - Firenze
Price: Purchase date: 1931

  Description
  The screw is grinded along the whole length. The surfaces are perfectly flat. The micrometer has a ratchet jack for its progress.

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MICROMETRIC SCREW

 
 School
  Azuni

  Function
  To measure small distances.
Maker: Unsigned Price: L 5 Purchase date: 1876

  Description
  On a wooden basis is fixed a little bridge in which centre there is a graduated disk divided into 180 parts. In the centre of the disk there is a screw. A coaxial needle is used as indicator of the height of the body placed under the bridge.

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CATHETOMETER

 
 School
  University (1),   University (2)

  Function
  To measure small differences in height.
Maker:
(1) Unsigned
(2) L. Golaz - Paris
Price:
L 500
L 120
Purchase date:
1902
1886

  Description
  It is formed by a telescope fixed to a graduated pole that lies on a tripod with levelling screws.
  The telescope can rotate on a plane perpendicular to the pole and can shift vertically on the same.

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MICROSCOPE CATHETOMETER

 
 School
  University

  Function
  To measure small differences in height.
Maker: F. Miller - Hinsbruch Price: L 175 Purchase date: 1887

  Description
  From a rectangular heavy metal basis rise two brass columns with a brass square basis. A microscope is placed horizontally on each column, whose height we can change with a tangent screw. On each of the columns there is a scale that indicates the height of the microscope.

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SPHEROMETER

 
 School
  University

  Function
  To measure the curvature radium of a spherical surface.
Maker: Unsigned Price: L 33 Purchase date: 1883

  Description
  The instrument is made of brass and leans on three iron pointed ends. The screw has a 1 mm pitch. The head holds a disk divided into a hundred parts which means that the instrument measures the hundredth part of a millimetre.

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CIRCULAR VERNIER

 
 School
  University

  Function
  For precision measure of angles.
Maker: Unsigned Price: L 22 Purchase date: 1918

  Description
  The main fixed angle measures 90°, and the vernier angle is divided into 20 parts that correspond to 19° of the main scale. The precision is a twentieth of grade.

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THEODOLITE

 
 School
  University (1),   Spano (2)
(1)

  Function
  For precision measure of angles.
Maker:
(1) Sauli - Marseille
(2) Officine Galileo - Florence
Price:
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Purchase date:
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  Description
  (1) The instrument, all in brass, is made of a pole that stands on a tripod with level screws. At half height there is a 24 cm diameter graduated circle, that rotates around the pole. A telescope that can rotate on a vertical plane is anchored to the circle. On the top of the pole we have a horizontal bar. At one end of this bar there is a 15 cm diameter circle that can rotate on a vertical plane. On the circle another telescope is anchored. At the other end of the bar, there is a balance weight. Two air-levels are placed horizontally on the bar.

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AIR-LEVEL

 
 School
  Castelvė (1),   Pellegrini (2)

  Function
  To find a horizontal line or a horizontal plane.
   Maker:
(1) Unsigned
(2) Unsigned
Price:
L 8
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Purchase date:
Cat. 1923
1897

  Description
  It is a small instrument on a painted sheet metal. It has a case in the same material.

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