Verniers

Series: Machine Shop Work Series Precision Measurement Series

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1941

Creator: 20202 Loucks And Norling Studios

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Verniers Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film SummaryUses animation to tell the principles of the Vernier scale and its application to precision measuring instruments. Tells how to use and read Vernier micrometers and calipers.Dr. Hadley Cantril discusses his investigations at the Perception Demonstration Center at Princeton University of the effects of some of our assumptions on what we see. Shows a distorted room that looks normal, with illustrations that include a rotating trapezoid that appears to oscillate, balloons that seem to move when in reality they are being inflated and deflateilluminated and darkened.

Complete Record: Verniers Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film SummaryUses animation to tell the principles of the Vernier scale and its application to precision measuring instruments. Tells how to use and read Vernier micrometers and calipers. Dr. Hadley Cantril discusses his investigations at the Perception Demonstration Center at Princeton University of the effects of some of our assumptions on what we see. Shows a distorted room that looks normal, with illustrations that include a rotating trapezoid that appears to oscillate, balloons that seem to move when in reality they are being inflated and deflateilluminated and darkened.