"Vernier" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of each disk indicates the moment of the cutting of the wire in the corresponding plug. Hence measurement of the distance between two successive spots gives the time occupied by the shot in moving over the portion of the bore between two successive plugs. By the aid of a vernier, readings are made to thousandths of an inch, and the peripheral velocity of the disks being 1100 in. a second, the machine indicates portions of time rather less than one-millionth of a second; it is, in fact, practically correct to hundred-thousandths of a second (Phil. ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 - "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" • Various
... and Holland. Seventy persons massacred in a tumult at Lyons. On the motion of Dubois Crance, decreed, that three milliards of assignats be issued. S. The Spaniards defeated near Figueras. Motion to permit a loss of two per cent. a month on assignats. Vernier, successor to Cambon, states the expence of the last campaign at 3,000,000,000 in assignats; and the last month at 738 millions. 15. An alliance offensive and defensive concluded at the Hague between France and Holland; the first article excludes the Stadtholder ...
— Historical Epochs of the French Revolution • H. Goudemetz
... "Mademoiselle Vernier," Herr Schwartzmann had introduced her when they came. And he had used her given name as he added: "Mademoiselle Diane is somewhat ...
— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various
... our subject in the new era of investigation ushered in by the invention of that marvelous instrument, the telescope, followed closely by the work of Kepler, Scheiner, Cassini, Huyghens, Newton, Digges, Nonius, Vernier, Hall, Dollond, Herschel, Short, Bird, Ramsden, Troughton, Smeaton, Fraunhofer, and a host of others, each of whom has contributed a noble share in the elimination of sources of error, until to-day we are satisfied ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 • Various
... it a vernier?" said he. "Its proper term is a nonius, because Nonius was its inventor and Vernier took ...
— The Reminiscences of an Astronomer • Simon Newcomb |
