Precision is a goal that's hard to achieve without accurate feedback, and measurement tools are needed to provide that important information.
This slideshow gallery presents some of the early test and measurement tools used in the past to capture, measure, and verify the performance of created products and systems. The ability to capture everything that can be known about a process is a relatively recent achievement; older systems weren't that powerful or functional. But they did their jobs well for the technology of their day.
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An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.
