WHAT or WHO is a Vernier??? #diy #engineering #science #tools #machining

Yes teach me how to read measurements on all the cool old tools

show us how that was 2/1000s of an inch

The year 1975 , the last year we were issued slide rules in highschool chemistry and taught how to use them (They work on same principle) and the first year that the use of electronic calculators was permitted for tests. Don't remember whether that was true for the SATs & the ACTs. By 1977 for freshman physics, calculus., chemistry we had the Texas Instruments TI 30 or the SR40.

Still have no idea how you read it 💀

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Fun fact, I think those are rebranded Scherr-Tumico which are in turn rebranded MAUSER calipers. (Yes that Mauser)

Great video on a widely used and extremely important tool of precision. However, I am fairly certain that photo is not of the Pierre Vernier that invented the caliper. It seems to be a commonly misplaced image, but black and white photography was not around at the time of Pierre Vernier, the inventor of the Vernier caliper.

Shows Photo of Alphonse Pierre Marie Vernier 1805-1863, because no cameras when the genuine Verner lived.

It’s a great way to understand measuring in 1000th’s of an inch.👍🏽

My dad bought one of these from Sears in 1960 when I was 10yrs old, now I'm 75, and it still is accurate

Would love to know how to read it

ive used these calipers for several years. great tools and easy to read and not easily knocked out of calibration. super reliable measuring tool. and for us Americans have both metric and sae scales.

Is it similar to vernier tang sights on a rifle?

Every european metalworker learns how to use Them, i didn't know, that you guys didn't

Got to stop you…1631?….the first photos weren’t taken unit 1826 ish…that fella has to be 250 years old in that photo…

Who the fuck is in the photo? It sure as fuck can't be a man who died in 1637 !!!

Don't slam the jaws.

They sell a plastic version of these at Harbor Freight for like $2 that work surprisingly well.

I used them as an aircraft mechanic and building guitars. Need a new pair now, actually

You should see what a micrometer can do!

You crazy Americans work with 1/10th and 1/100th and 1/1000th of an inch.

Yet don't know what metric is.

But don't worry, I'm an old boardsailor, so know intimately what a knot of wind is, but not a metre per second.

RMY

Yeah calipers are good to a point but micrometers are typically used to get better measurements when needed. There’s an amazing assortment of gauging tools that most people have no idea exist. Show the people an air gauge or a bore micrometer. 😁

It must be remembered that callipers do no adhere to the Abbe’s principle of measurement for accuracy determination.

It reminds me the slide-rule -- another Vernier like device but arranged with logarithmic indexes.

I like to know how to use slide ruler and do the basic 4 function math.