ELI5, How are precision calibration tools, themselves calibrated?

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Feels like a chicken and egg senario. Let’s say I get my torque wrench from work sent off to be calibrated, and that’s calibrated with something itself needs to be calibrated, and so on and so fourth. How’s that figured out?

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Very good book out there by Simon Winchester called The Perfectionists that covers precision, precision instruments and measuring, and how it is all arrived at.

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Feels like a chicken and egg senario. Let’s say I get my torque wrench from work sent off to be calibrated, and that’s calibrated with something itself needs to be calibrated, and so on and so fourth. How’s that figured out?

In: 430

27 Answers

Anonymous 0 Comments

Very good book out there by Simon Winchester called The Perfectionists that covers precision, precision instruments and measuring, and how it is all arrived at.

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