1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910222154903321

Autore

Hartmann, R. R. K.

Titolo

Dictionary of language and linguistics / R.R.K. Hartmann and F.C. Stork

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Applied Sciences Publishers ltd, c1972

ISBN

0853345341

Descrizione fisica

XVIII, 302 p. ; 23 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Stork, Francis Colin

Locazione

DINED

Collocazione

LL 73

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300374403321

Autore

Robens Erich

Titolo

Balances : Instruments, Manufacturers, History / / by Erich Robens, Shanath Amarasiri A. Jayaweera, Susanne Kiefer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-642-36447-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (743 p.)

Disciplina

530

530.01

530.8

620.11

Soggetti

Physical measurements

Measurement

Materials science

Physics

Measurement Science and Instrumentation

Characterization and Evaluation of Materials

History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics

Applied and Technical Physics



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mass and gravity -- Weights -- Weighing -- Balances -- Balances for special applications -- Balance as symbol and art object -- Documentation and archiving -- Weighing scales manufacturers.

Sommario/riassunto

The book deals mainly with direct mass determination by means of a conventional balances. It covers the history of the balance from the beginnings in Egypt earlier than 3000 BC to recent developments. All balance types are described with emphasis on scientific balances. Methods of indirect mass determination, which are applied to very light objects like molecules and the basic particles of matter and celestial bodies, are included.  As additional guidance, today’s manufacturers are listed and the profile of important companies is reviewed. Several hundred photographs, reproductions and drawings show instruments and their uses. This book includes commercial weighing instruments for merchandise and raw materials in workshops as well as symbolic weighing in the ancient Egyptian’s ceremony of ‘Weighing of the Heart’, the Greek fate balance, the Roman  Justitia, Juno Moneta and Middle Ages scenes of the Last Judgement with Jesus or St. Michael and of modern balances. The photographs are selected from the slide-archives of the late Richard Vieweg (1896-1972) (former President of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany), of the late Hans R. Jenemann (1920-1966) (former head of the Analytical Laboratory of Schott & Gen., Mainz, Germany) and of his wife Irene (1933-2008) and of Erich Robens.