The electric strain gauge

MANY new developments have grown out of the vibration recorder¹ originally described before the AIEE in 1926. One of the first of these developments resulted in apparatus for recording transient pressures electrically.⁴ This has been used to measure transient pressures in switchgear apparatus, transformers, water wheels, steam turbines, gasoline engines, refrigerators, and in other places. Another is the electric gauge^8,18 which has many applications. It is used for the most accurate gauging of production parts in machine shops and inspection rooms, also it is widely used in steel mills for continuous gauging of strips as they are being rolled, for controlling their thickness, for measuring the tension in the strip¹⁹ and the pressure applied to the mill rolls. Another application is the measurement of the thickness of paint, enamel, or other nonmagnetic coatings over steel.¹³