Pressure Gage

Aug 30
2008

Pressure measurement

Absolute, gauge and differential pressures - zero reference

Although pressure is an absolute quantity, everyday pressure measurements, such as for tire pressure, are usually made relative to ambient air pressure. In other cases measurements are made relative to a vacuum or to some other ad hoc reference. When distinguishing between these zero references, the following terms are used:

Absolute pressure is zero referenced against a perfect vacuum, so it is equal to gauge pressure plus atmospheric pressure.

Gauge pressure is zero referenced against ambient air pressure, so it is equal to absolute pressure minus atmospheric pressure. Negative signs are usually omitted.

Differential pressure is the difference in pressure between two points.

The zero reference in use is usually implied by context, and these words are only added when clarification is needed. Tire pressure and blood pressure are gauge pressures by convention, while atmospheric pressures, deep vacuum pressures, and altimeter pressures must be absolute. Differential pressures are commonly used in industrial process systems. Differential pressure gauges have two inlet ports, each connected to one of the volumes whose pressure is to be monitored. In effect, such a gauge performs the mathematical operation of subtraction through mechanical means, obviating the need for an operator or control system to watch two separate gauges and determine the difference in readings. Moderate vacuum pressures are often ambiguous, as they may represent absolute pressure or gauge pressure without a negative sign. Thus a vacuum of 26 inHg gauge is equivalent to an absolute pressure of 30 inHg (typical atmospheric pressure) 26 inHg = 4 inHg.

Atmospheric pressure is typically about 100 kPa at sea level, but is variable with altitude and weather. If the absolute pressure of a fluid stays constant, the gauge pressure of the same fluid will vary as atmospheric pressure changes. For example, when a car drives up a mountain, the tire pressure goes up. Some standard values of atmospheric pressure such as 101.325 kPa or 100 kPa have been defined, and some instruments use one of these standard values as a constant zero reference instead of the actual variable ambient air pressure. This impairs the accuracy of these instruments, especially when used at high altitudes.

Use of the atmosphere as reference is usually signified by a (g) after the pressure unit e.g. 30 psi g, which means that the pressure measured is the total pressure minus atmospheric pressure. There are two types of gauge reference pressure: vented gauge (vg) and sealed gauge (sg).

A vented gauge pressure transmitter for example allows the outside air pressure to be exposed to the negative side of the pressure sensing diaphragm, via a vented cable or a hole on the side of the device, so that it always measures the pressure referred to ambient barometric pressure. Thus a vented gauge reference pressure sensor should always read zero pressure when the process pressure connection is held open to the air.

A sealed gauge reference is very similar except that atmospheric pressure is sealed on the negative side of the diaphragm. This is usually adopted on high pressure ranges such as hydraulics where atmospheric pressure changes will have a negligible effect on the accuracy of the reading, so venting is not necessary. This also allows some manufacturers to provide secondary pressure containment as an extra precaution for pressure equipment safety if the burst pressure of the primary pressure sensing diaphragm is exceeded.

There is another way of creating a sealed gauge reference and this is to seal a high vacuum on the reverse side of the sensing diaphragm. Then the output signal is offset so the pressure sensor reads close to zero when measuring atmospheric pressure.

A sealed gauge reference pressure transducer will never read exactly zero because atmospheric pressure is always changing and the reference in this case is fixed at 1 bar.

An absolute pressure measurement is one that is referred to absolute vacuum. The best example of an absolute referenced pressure is atmospheric or barometric pressure.

To produce an absolute pressure sensor the manufacturer will seal a high vacuum behind the sensing diaphragm. If the process pressure connection of an absolute pressure transmitter is open to the air, it will read the actual barometric pressure.

Units

Pressure Units

pascal

(Pa)

bar

(bar)

technical atmosphere

(at)

atmosphere

(atm)

torr

(Torr)

pound-force per

square inch

(psi)

1 Pa

1 N/m2

105

1.0197105

9.8692106

7.5006103

145.04106

1 bar

100,000

106 dyn/cm2

1.0197

0.98692

750.06

14.5037744

1 at

98,066.5

0.980665

1 kgf/cm2

0.96784

735.56

14.223

1 atm

101,325

1.01325

1.0332

1 atm

760

14.696

1 torr

133.322

1.3332103

1.3595103

1.3158103

1 Torr; 1 mmHg

19.337103

1 psi

6.894103

68.948103

70.307103

68.046103

51.715

1 lbf/in2

Example reading: 1 Pa = 1 N/m2 = 105 bar = 10.197106 at = 9.8692106 atm, etc.

The SI unit for pressure is the pascal (Pa), equal to one newton per square metre (Nm2 or kgm1s2). This special name for the unit was added in 1971; before that, pressure in SI was expressed in units such as N/m. When indicated, the zero reference is stated in parenthesis following the unit, for example 101 kPa (abs). The pound per square inch (psi) is still in widespread use in the US and Canada, notably for cars. A letter is often appended to the psi unit to indicate the measurement's zero reference; psia for absolute, psig for gauge, psid for differential, although this practice is discouraged by the NIST .

Because pressure was once commonly measured by its ability to displace a column of liquid in a manometer, pressures are often expressed as a depth of a particular fluid (e.g. inches of water). The most common choices are mercury (Hg) and water; water is nontoxic and readily available, while mercury's density allows for a shorter column (and so a smaller manometer) to measure a given pressure.

Fluid density and local gravity can vary from one reading to another depending on local factors, so the height of a fluid column does not define pressure precisely. When 'millimetres of mercury' or 'inches of mercury' are quoted today, these units are not based on a physical column of mercury; rather, they have been given precise definitions that can be expressed in terms of SI units. The water-based units usually assume one of the older definitions of the kilogram as the weight of a litre of water.

Although no longer favoured by measurement experts, these manometric units are still encountered in many fields. Blood pressure is measured in millimetres of mercury in most of the world, and lung pressures in centimeters of water are still common. Natural gas pipeline pressures are measured in inches of water, expressed as '"WC' ('Water Column'). Scuba divers often use a manometric rule of thumb: the pressure exerted by ten metres depth of water is approximately equal to one atmosphere. In vacuum systems, the units torr, micrometre of mercury (micron), and inch of mercury (inHg) are most commonly used. Torr and micron usually indicates an absolute pressure, while inHg usually indicates a gauge pressure.

Atmospheric pressures are usually stated using kilopascal (kPa), or atmospheres (atm), except in American meteorology where the hectopascal (hPa) and millibar (mbar) are preferred. In American and Canadian engineering, stress is often measured in kip. Note that stress is not a true pressure since it is not scalar. In the cgs system the unit of pressure was the barye (ba), equal to 1 dyncm2. In the mts system, the unit of pressure was the pieze, equal to 1 sthene per square metre.

Many other hybrid units are used such as mmHg/cm or grams-force/cm (sometimes as kg/cm and g/mol2 without properly identifying the force units). Using the names kilogram, gram, kilogram-force, or gram-force (or their symbols) as a unit of force is forbidden in SI; the unit of force in SI is the newton (N).

Static and Dynamic pressure

Static pressure is uniform in all directions, so pressure measurements are independent of direction in an immovable (static) fluid. Flow, however, applies additional pressure on surfaces perpendicular to the flow direction, while having little impact on surfaces parallel to the flow direction. This directional component of pressure in a moving (dynamic) fluid is called dynamic pressure. An instrument facing the flow direction measures the sum of the static and dynamic pressures; this measurement is called the total pressure or stagnation pressure. Since dynamic pressure is referenced to static pressure, it is neither gauge nor absolute; it is a differential pressure.

While static gauge pressure is of primary importance to determining net loads on pipe walls, dynamic pressure is used to measure flow rates and airspeed. Dynamic pressure can be measured by taking the differential pressure between instruments parallel and perpendicular to the flow. Pitot-static tubes, for example perform this measurement on airplanes to determine airspeed. The presence of the measuring instrument inevitably acts to divert flow and create turbulence, so its shape is critical to accuracy and the calibration curves are often non-linear.

Applications

Altimeter

Barometer

MAP sensor

Pitot tube

Sphygmomanometer

Instruments

Many instruments have been invented to measure pressure, with different advantages and disadvantages. Pressure range, sensitivity, dynamic response and cost all vary by several orders of magnitude from one instrument design to the next. The oldest type is the liquid column (a vertical tube filled with mercury) manometer invented by Evangelista Torricelli in 1643. The U-Tube was invented by Christian Huygens in 1661.

Hydrostatic

Hydrostatic gauges (such as the mercury column manometer) compare pressure to the hydrostatic force per unit area at the base of a column of fluid. Hydrostatic gauge measurements are independent of the type of gas being measured, and can be designed to have a very linear calibration. They have poor dynamic response.

Piston

Piston-type gauges counterbalance the pressure of a fluid with a solid weight or a spring. Another name for piston gauge is deadweight tester. For example, dead-weight testers used for calibration or tire-pressure gauges.

Liquid column

The difference in fluid height in a liquid column manometer is proportional to the pressure difference.

Liquid column gauges consist of a vertical column of liquid in a tube whose ends are exposed to different pressures. The column will rise or fall until its weight is in equilibrium with the pressure differential between the two ends of the tube. A very simple version is a U-shaped tube half-full of liquid, one side of which is connected to the region of interest while the reference pressure (which might be the atmospheric pressure or a vacuum) is applied to the other. The difference in liquid level represents the applied pressure. The pressure exerted by a column of fluid of height h and density is given by the hydrostatic pressure equation, P = hg. Therefore the pressure difference between the applied pressure Pa and the reference pressure P0 in a U-tube manometer can be found by solving Pa P0 = hg. If the fluid being measured is significantly dense, hydrostatic corrections may have to be made for the height between the moving surface of the manometer working fluid and the location where the pressure measurement is desired.

Although any fluid can be used, mercury is preferred for its high density (13.534 g/cm3) and low vapour pressure. For low pressure differences well above the vapour pressure of water, water is commonly used (and "inches of water" is a common pressure unit). Liquid-column pressure gauges are independent of the type of gas being measured and have a highly linear calibration. They have poor dynamic response. When measuring vacuum, the working liquid may evaporate and contaminate the vacuum if its vapor pressure is too high. When measuring liquid pressure, a loop filled with gas or a light fluid must isolate the liquids to prevent them from mixing. Simple hydrostatic gauges can measure pressures ranging from a few Torr (a few 100 Pa) to a few atmospheres. (Approximately 1,000,000 Pa)

A single-limb liquid-column manometer has a larger reservoir instead of one side of the U-tube and has a scale beside the narrower column. The column may be inclined to further amplify the liquid movement. Based on the use and structure following type of manometers are used

Simple Manometer

Micromanometer

Differential manometer

Inverted differential manometer

A McLeod gauge, drained of mercury

McLeod gauge

A McLeod gauge isolates a sample of gas and compresses it in a modified mercury manometer until the pressure is a few mmHg. The gas must be well-behaved during its compression (it must not condense, for example). The technique is slow and unsuited to continual monitoring, but is capable of good accuracy.

Useful range: above 10-4 torr (roughly 10-2 Pa) as high as 106 Torr (0.1 mPa),

0.1 mPa is the lowest direct measurement of pressure that is possible with current technology. Other vacuum gauges can measure lower pressures, but only indirectly by measurement of other pressure-controlled properties. These indirect measurements must be calibrated to SI units via a direct measurement, most commonly a McLeod gauge.

Aneroid

Aneroid gauges are based on a metallic pressure sensing element which flexes elastically under the effect of a pressure difference across the element. "Aneroid" means "without fluid," and the term originally distinguished these gauges from the hydrostatic gauges described above. However, aneroid gauges can be used to measure the pressure of a liquid as well as a gas, and they are not the only type of gauge that can operate without fluid. For this reason, they are often called mechanical gauges in modern language. Aneroid gauges are not dependent on the type of gas being measured, unlike thermal and ionization gauges, and are less likely to contaminate the system than hydrostatic gauges. The pressure sensing element may be a Bourdon tube, a diaphragm, a capsule, or a set of bellows, which will change shape in response to the pressure of the region in question. The deflection of the pressure sensing element may be read by a linkage connected to a needle, or it may be read by a secondary transducer. The most common secondary transducers in modern vacuum gauges measure a change in capacitance due to the mechanical deflection. Gauges that rely on a change in capacitances are often referred to as Baratron gauges.

Bourdon

Membrane-type manometer

A Bourdon gauge uses a coiled tube, which, as it expands due to pressure increase causes a rotation of an arm connected to the tube. In 1849 the Bourdon tube pressure gauge was patented in France by Eugene Bourdon.

The pressure sensing element is a closed coiled tube connected to the chamber or pipe in which pressure is to be sensed. As the gauge pressure increases the tube will tend to uncoil, while a reduced gauge pressure will cause the tube to coil more tightly. This motion is transferred through a linkage to a gear train connected to an indicating needle. The needle is presented in front of a card face inscribed with the pressure indications associated with particular needle deflections. In a barometer, the Bourdon tube is sealed at both ends and the absolute pressure of the ambient atmosphere is sensed. Differential Bourdon gauges use two Bourdon tubes and a mechanical linkage that compares the readings.

In the following illustrations the transparent cover face of the pictured combination pressure and vacuum gauge has been removed and the mechanism removed from the case. This particular gauge is a combination vacuum and pressure gauge used for automotive diagnosis:

Indicator side with card and dial

Mechanical side with Bourdon tube

the left side of the face, used for measuring manifold vacuum, is calibrated in centimetres of mercury on its inner scale and inches of mercury on its outer scale.

the right portion of the face is used to measure fuel pump pressure and is calibrated in fractions of 1 kgf/cm on its inner scale and pounds per square inch on its outer scale.

Mechanical details

Stationary parts:

A: Receiver block. This joins the inlet pipe to the fixed end of the Bourdon tube (1) and secures the chassis plate (B). The two holes receive screws that secure the case.

B: Chassis plate. The face card is attached to this. It contains bearing holes for the axles.

C: Secondary chassis plate. It supports the outer ends of the axles.

D: Posts to join and space the two chassis plates.

Moving Parts:

Stationary end of Bourdon tube. This communicates with the inlet pipe through the receiver block.

Moving end of Bourdon tube. This end is sealed.

Pivot and pivot pin.

Link joining pivot pin to lever (5) with pins to allow joint rotation.

Lever. This an extension of the sector gear (7).

Sector gear axle pin.

Sector gear.

Indicator needle axle. This has a spur gear that engages the sector gear (7) and extends through the face to drive the indicator needle. Due to the short distance between the lever arm link boss and the pivot pin and the difference between the effective radius of the sector gear and that of the spur gear, any motion of the Bourdon tube is greatly amplified. A small motion of the tube results in a large motion of the indicator needle.

Hair spring to preload the gear train to eliminate gear lash and hysteresis.

Diaphragm

A pile of pressure capsules with corrugated diaphragms in an aneroid barograph.

A second type of aneroid gauge uses the deflection of a flexible membrane that separates regions of different pressure. The amount of deflection is repeatable for known pressures so the pressure can be determined by using calibration. The deformation of a thin diaphragm is dependent on the difference in pressure between its two faces. The reference face can be open to atmosphere to measure gauge pressure, open to a second port to measure differential pressure, or can be sealed against a vacuum or other fixed reference pressure to measure absolute pressure. The deformation can be measured using mechanical, optical or capacitive techniques. Ceramic and metallic diaphragms are used.

Useful range: above 10-2 Torr (roughly 1 Pa)

For absolute measurements, welded pressure capsules with diaphragms on either side are often used.

Shape:

Flat

corrugated

flattened tube

capsule

Bellows

In gauges intended to sense small pressures or pressure differences, or require that an absolute pressure be measured, the gear train and needle may be driven by an enclosed and sealed bellows chamber, called an aneroid, which means "without liquid". (Early barometers used a column of liquid such as water or the liquid metal mercury suspended by a vacuum.) This bellows configuration is used in aneroid barometers (barometers with an indicating needle and dial card), altimeters, altitude recording barographs, and the altitude telemetry instruments used in weather balloon radiosondes. These devices use the sealed chamber as a reference pressure and are driven by the external pressure. Other sensitive aircraft instruments such as air speed indicators and rate of climb indicators (variometers) have connections both to the internal part of the aneroid chamber and to an external enclosing chamber.

Electronic pressure sensors

Main article: Pressure sensor

Piezoresistive Strain Gage

Uses the piezoresistive effect of bonded or formed strain gauges to detect strain due to applied pressure.

Capacitive

Uses a diaphragm and pressure cavity to create a variable capacitor to detect strain due to applied pressure.

Magnetic

Measures the displacement of a diaphragm by means of changes in inductance (reluctance), LVDT, Hall Effect, or by eddy current principal.

Piezoelectric

Uses the piezoelectric effect in certain materials such as quartz to measure the strain upon the sensing mechanism due to pressure.

Optical

Uses the physical change of an optical fiber to detect strain due applied pressure.

Potentiometric

Uses the motion of a wiper along a resistive mechanism to detect the strain caused by applied pressure.

Resonant

Uses the changes in resonant frequency in a sensing mechanism to measure stress, or changes in gas density, caused by applied pressure.

Thermal conductivity

Generally, as a real gas increases in density -which may indicate an increase in pressure- its ability to conduct heat increases. In this type of gauge, a wire filament is heated by running current through it. A thermocouple or Resistance Temperature Detector (RTD) can then be used to measure the temperature of the filament. This temperature is dependent on the rate at which the filament loses heat to the surrounding gas, and therefore on the thermal conductivity. A common variant is the Pirani gauge which uses a single platinum filament as both the heated element and RTD. These gauges are accurate from 10 Torr to 103 Torr, but they are sensitive to the chemical composition of the gases being measured.

Two wire

One wire coil is used as a heater, and the other is used to measure nearby temperature due to convection.

Pirani (one wire)

A Pirani gauge consists of a metal wire open to the pressure being measured. The wire is heated by a current flowing through it and cooled by the gas surrounding it. If the gas pressure is reduced, the cooling effect will decrease, hence the equilibrium temperature of the wire will increase. The resistance of the wire is a function of its temperature: by measuring the voltage across the wire and the current flowing through it, the resistance (and so the gas pressure) can be determined. This type of gauge was invented by Marcello Pirani.

Thermocouple gauges and thermistor gauges work in a similar manner, except a thermocouple or thermistor is used to measure the temperature of the wire.

Useful range: 10-3 - 10 Torr (roughly 10-1 - 1000 Pa)

Ionization gauge

Ionization gauges are the most sensitive gauges for very low pressures (also referred to as hard or high vacuum). They sense pressure indirectly by measuring the electrical ions produced when the gas is bombarded with electrons. Fewer ions will be produced by lower density gases. The calibration of an ion gauge is unstable and dependent on the nature of the gases being measured, which is not always known. They can be calibrated against a McLeod gauge which is much more stable and independent of gas chemistry.

Thermionic emission generate electrons, which collide with gas atoms and generate positive ions. The ions are attracted to a suitably biased electrode known as the collector. The current in the collector is proportional to the rate of ionization, which is a function of the pressure in the system. Hence, measuring the collector current gives the gas pressure. There are several sub-types of ionization gauge.

Useful range: 10-10 - 10-3 torr (roughly 10-8 - 10-1 Pa)

Most ion gauges come in two types: hot cathode and cold cathode, a third type exists which is more sensitive and expensive known as a spinning rotor gauge, but is not discussed here. In the hot cathode version an electrically heated filament produces an electron beam. The electrons travel through the gauge and ionize gas molecules around them. The resulting ions are collected at a negative electrode. The current depends on the number of ions, which depends on the pressure in the gauge. Hot cathode gauges are accurate from 103 Torr to 1010 Torr. The principle behind cold cathode version is the same, except that electrons are produced in a discharge created by a high voltage electrical discharge. Cold Cathode gauges are accurate from 102 Torr to 109 Torr. Ionization gauge calibration is very sensitive to construction geometry, chemical composition of gases being measured, corrosion and surface deposits. Their calibration can be invalidated by activation at atmospheric pressure or low vacuum. The composition of gases at high vacuums will usually be unpredictable, so a mass spectrometer must be used in conjunction with the ionization gauge for accurate measurement.

Hot cathode

Bayard-Alpert hot cathode ionization gauge

A hot cathode ionization gauge is mainly composed of three electrodes all acting as a triode, where the cathode is the filament. The three electrodes are a collector or plate, a filament, and a grid. The collector current is measured in picoamps by an electrometer. The filament voltage to ground is usually at a potential of 30 volts while the grid voltage at 180210 volts DC, unless there is an optional electron bombardment feature, by heating the grid which may have a high potential of approximately 565 volts. The most common ion gauge is the hot cathode Bayard-Alpert gauge, with a small ion collector inside the grid. A glass envelope with an opening to the vacuum can surround the electrodes, but usually the Nude Gauge is inserted in the vacuum chamber directly, the pins being fed through a ceramic plate in the wall of the chamber. Hot cathode gauges can be damaged or lose their calibration if they are exposed to atmospheric pressure or even low vacuum while hot. The measurements of a hot cathode ionization gauge are always logarithmic.

Electrons emitted from the filament move several times in back and forth movements around the grid before finally entering the grid. During these movements, some electrons collide with a gaseous molecule to form a pair of an ion and an electron (Electron ionization). The number of these ions is proportional to the gaseous molecule density multiplied by the electron current emitted from the filament, and these ions pour into the collector to form an ion current. Since the gaseous molecule density is proportional to the pressure, the pressure is estimated by measuring the ion current.

The low pressure sensitivity of hot cathode gauges is limited by the photoelectric effect. Electrons hitting the grid produce x-rays that produce photoelectric noise in the ion collector. This limits the range of older hot cathode gauges to 108 Torr and the Bayard-Alpert to about 1010 Torr. Additional wires at cathode potential in the line of sight between the ion collector and the grid prevent this effect. In the extraction type the ions are not attracted by a wire, but by an open cone. As the ions cannot decide which part of the cone to hit, they pass through the hole and form an ion beam. This ion beam can be passed on to a

Faraday cup

Microchannel plate detector with Faraday cup

Quadrupole mass analyzer with Faraday cup

Quadrupole mass analyzer with Microchannel plate detector Faraday cup

ion lens and acceleration voltage and directed at a target to form a sputter gun. In this case a valve lets gas into the grid-cage.

See also

Force gauge

Piezometer

Vacuum engineering

External links

Home Made Manometer

Manometer

References

^ NIST

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^ Techniques of high vacuum

^ Beckwith, Thomas G.; Roy D. Marangoni and John H. Lienhard V (1993). "Measurement of Low Pressures". Mechanical Measurements (Fifth ed.). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. pp. 591595. ISBN 0-201-56947-7.

^ Product brochure from Schoonover, Inc

^ VG Scienta

^ Robert M. Besanon, ed (1990). "Vacuum Techniques" (3rd edition ed.). Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York. pp. 12781284. ISBN 0-442-00522-9.

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1/4 npt mini gage Milton high-quality dry gages for reliable service with compressors, filters-regulators, air lines, pneumatic tools and equipment Maximum working pressure: Should be limited to 75% of dial range Maximum working temperature: -13 F. to 120 F. P.S.I. range 0 to 160, 1-1/2? face 1/4? NPT mini gage Brand #: Milton Ind/INCOM 1191 UPC: 030937111913 Keywords: gage pressure mini

Milton Ind incom Milton Ind incom 1 4npt Bot Mount Gage 1194

$11.48

1/4npt bot mount gage Milton high-quality dry gages for reliable service with compressors, filters-regulators, air lines, pneumatic tools and equipment Maximum working pressure: Should be limited to 75% of dial range Maximum working temperature: -13 F. to 120 F. P.S.I. range 0 to 160, 1-1/2? face 1/4? NPT gage bottom mount Brand #: Milton Ind/INCOM 1194 UPC: 030937111944 Keywords: gage pressure mini

Jefferson Weather Instrument Wind Gage

$196.99

These extraordinary instruments set a new standard in both form and function. This Jeffersonian collection offers the owner an artistic embellishment to a favored garden retreat. Made from solid brass, glass and stainless steel, they are certain to offer a lifetime of service and value. Included with each Jeffersonian are a pressure treated wooden stake for ground installation, as well as a hanger bolt for mounting on a post, fence or deck rail. Like all Conant Custom Brass products, the Jeffersonian Collection is Guaranteed for Life! The genuine beauty of an antique patina appeals to those with a traditional aesthetic. These products start with a natural tumbled finish. Within a few months of exposure to the elements, the solid brass casing begins to age gracefully and to develop a mellow patina. All Conant Custom Brass products have a living finish that enhances their genuine beauty for years to come.

Gage Weston - Ripped Fireman

$6

Gage Weston - Ripped Fireman

Auto Meter Auto Gage Electric Oil Pressure Gauge

$41.99

Attractive Console For Versatile Mounting,Color Coded Dial Increases Visibility,Smooth Pointer Movement,1 Year Limited Warranty

Auto Meter Auto Gage Mechanical Oil Pressure Gauge

$25.99

Individual Console Design,Allows Several Instruments To Mounted,Clean And Uniform Look,Clear Contrast Visibility Dial,1 Year Limited Warranty

Milton MILS921 Tire Air Pressure Gage for Passenger Cars

$21.18

Pencil Type Gauge. Radial and conventional passenger tire gauge. 2 sides 5 to 50 PSI in 1 lb. increments. 2 sides kilo Pascals (kPa) 40 to 350 in 10 kPa increments.

Milton Ind incom Milton Ind incom 1 8 Npt Mini Gage 1189

$12.82

1/8 npt mini gage Milton high-quality dry gages for reliable service with compressors, filters-regulators, air lines, pneumatic tools and equipment Maximum working pressure: Should be limited to 75% of dial range Maximum working temperature: -13 F. to 120 F. P.S.I. range 0 to 160, 1-1/2? face 1/8? mini center back Brand #: Milton Ind/INCOM 1189 UPC: 030937111890 Keywords: gage pressure mini

Gage Glass Rl 5/8" x 24 Gauge Glass. Case of 6

$165.54

Manufacturer: Gage Glass. Case of 6. Made especially for moderate pressure service on boilers, vats tanks, coffee urns, where pressures do not exceed the maximum recommended No corrosion Outside Diameter = 5/8 in Length = 24 in Operating Pressure = 265.

Gage Glass Rl 5/8" x 36 Gauge Glass. Case of 6

$245.06

Manufacturer: Gage Glass. Case of 6. Made especially for moderate pressure service on boilers, vats tanks, coffee urns, where pressures do not exceed the maximum recommended No corrosion Outside Diameter = 5/8 in Length = 36 in Operating Pressure = 205.

Gage Glass Rl 5/8" x 48 Gauge Glass. Case of 6

$284.52

Manufacturer: Gage Glass. Case of 6. Made especially for moderate pressure service on boilers, vats tanks, coffee urns, where pressures do not exceed the maximum recommended No corrosion Outside Diameter = 5/8 in Length = 48 in Operating Pressure = 165.

Gage Glass 05558X36RL Rl 58X36 Gauge Glass

$286.73

Made especially for moderate pressure service on boilers vats and tanks coffee urns where pressures do not exceed the maximum recommended. Outside Diam: 5/8 . Length: 36 . Operating Pressure: 205.0 psig [Max]. Temp. Range: 150.0 F [Max]. Material: Glass. Type: Red Line.

Fowler 6 Piece Telescoping Gage Set. Each

$103.23

Manufacturer: Fowler. Each. Features Benefits: Range: 5/16" to 6" Satin chrome finish Rigid handle with self-centering feature Provides uniform contact pressure Contact points precision ground Knurled lock maintains the setting of measuring arms to per

Milton DIal Type Tire Gage. Each

$25.54

Manufacturer: Milton Industries. Each. Features and Benefits: 0-60 PSI in 1 lb. increments Angled single head chuck with rubber shock guard Precision made, rugged bronze bourdon tube 2" face with unbreakable lens, and easy to read dial Pressure is indica

Cartoon: Thomas Gage, 1774

$19.99

Cartoon: Thomas Gage, 1774 - Giclee Print

Gage Park, Topeka, Kansas

$34.99

Gage Park, Topeka, Kansas - Giclee Print

Phineas Gage

$20.47

A 13-pound iron rod shot through the brain of railroad construction foreman Phineas Gage in Vermont in 1848. He lived 11 more years, and was able to walk and talk and function as normally as he had in the past. But, as his doctor said, Gage was no longer Gage. His manner darkened; he became coarse and chaotic when he had been an affable, dependable person. The true story of a medical oddity that continues to intrigue doctors. Full-color photographs accompany the text.

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