in all variants of English. The suffix "-meter" has the same Greek origin as the unit of length, "metron" and literally means "that by which a thing is measured."

History

thumbThe history of instrumentation can be divided into several phases.

Pre-industrial

Elements of industrial instrumentation have long histories. Scales for comparing weights and simple pointers to indicate position are ancient technologies. Some of the earliest measurements were of time.

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