calipers

Updated: May 23, 2025

"After this discovery I began to compare the two enlargements in a very different manner from my previous scrutiny. I borrowed a pair of calipers from the photographer and with these I carried out a most methodical and exact comparison of the details shown in the two photographs. "Suddenly I came upon something that set me all tingling with excitement.

William Hope Hodgson - Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

This important and growing department will be represented in the ideal gymnasium of the future First, by courses, if not by a chair, devoted to the apparatus of measurements of human proportions and symmetry, with a kinesological cabinet where young men are instructed in the elements of auscultation, the use of calipers, the sphygmograph, spirometer, plethysmograph, kinesometer to plot graphic curves, compute average errors, and tables of percentile grades and in statistical methods, etc.

G. Stanley Hall - Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene

I would like to see you in the service, but I can't take you in now. I must get on with my work and hurry back to my office. Good-bye and good luck to you. And don't forget about your fires." Turning to the elder of his two companions, he said, "All right, Finnegan. Go ahead." The man stepped to the nearest tree, slipped his calipers on it breast-high, then glanced aloft.

Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss - The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol: The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol

Among these are included the tools of carpenters, coopers, gardeners, butchers, glaziers, farriers, saddlers, tinmen, shoemakers, weavers, wheelwrights, as well as corkscrews, sugar- tongs, sugar-nippers, boot-hooks, button-hooks, door-scrapers, calipers, printing-irons, dog-collars, chains, whistles, tinderboxes, and tobacco- stoppers.

Samuel Sidney - Rides on Railways

Cut the three channels across as explained for the back, but in this way: At the upper nodal point, so that your calipers register bare one-eighth of an inch from one side to the other, centre as well same at the other node; and at the centre, full rather over one-eighth across, all to be for the present only, as a slight correction will be effected as the final stage of the use of the calipers is reached.

Walter H. (Walter Henry) Mayson - Violin Making: 'The Strad' Library, No. IX.

I'm satisfied!" remarked the Commissioner. "Now outline your plan." The bullet-headed man took up the calipers and indicated a spot on the coast of Labrador: "Our expedition will land, subject to your approval, at Hamilton Inlet, using the town of Rigolet as a base.

Arthur Cheney Train - The Man Who Rocked the Earth

But I have been told, young gentlemen, that a certain Seignior Seignioroni, a surgeon of Seville, has recently invented an admirable substitute for the clumsy, old-fashioned tourniquet. As I understand it, it is something like a pair of calipers, working with a small Archimedes screw a very clever invention, according to all accounts.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War

Then hold the plate in the extended left hand by middle bout, inside upwards, calipers and a long lead pencil together in the other; and, beginning at the centre of the plate, draw the calipers carefully from this starting-point all over the rough surface, gauging with your eye for the present any irregularities of said surface; for I want you to mark every part where the points stick, first within a radius of three inches, gradually extending your field of operations, slightly tightening the calipers as you get farther away from your centre, until the edges are finally reached, when you use the double calipers, No. 3, to ascertain the exact thickness at those places.

Walter H. (Walter Henry) Mayson - Violin Making: 'The Strad' Library, No. IX.