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H. Tinsley & Company

circa 1900-present

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H. Tinsley & Company has been manufacturing measuring instruments and measurement standards since 1905.
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  • England
  • London
The company is still in existence today. See "History - Pioneering Work at Tinsley," Tinsley Precision Instruments, http://www.tinsley.co.uk/history/index.html (accessed 10/20/2014)
Weston Normal Cadmium Standard Cells
Kelvin Double Bridge with Standards for the Accurate Measurement of Low Resistances
Megohms and High Resistance Boxes
Galvanometers (D'Arsonval): Scale Stands, Mirrors, Universal Shunts
Volt Ratio Boxes for the Measurement of Voltages by Means of a Potentiometer
Signalling and Balancing Condensers for Submarine and Duplex Telegraphy
Sensitive Galvanometers
Ionization Potentiometer
Sliding Contact Standard Wheatstone Bridges
Standard Condensers, High Insulation Condensers
Index and Terms of Business
Tinsley's Vernier Potentiometer
Turner Inductance and Capacity Bridges
Cathode Ray Oscillograph (Dr. A. B. Wood's)
Geophysical Prospecting by Electrical Methods
Thermo-Electric Potentiometer
Portable Kelvin Double Bridge
Portable Potentiometer
Non-Inductive Resistence Boxes
Variable Standard Mutual Inductometer
Schering Vibration Galvanometer
Portable Wheatstone Bridge
Students' Alternating Current Potentiometer
Resistance Boxes with "Dual" Contacts
Portable A. C. Potentiometer (D. C. Gall's)
High Resistance Boxes for Insulation Testing
Artificial Telephone Cable: Post Office Pattern
Dr. C. V. Drysdale's Astatic Standard Wattmeters
Portable Galvanometer with Combined Lamp and Scale
Standard Air-Condenser: National Physical Laboratory Pattern
Bridge for Platinum Thermometry: Callendar and Griffiths Method
Fixed Frequency Vibration Galvanometer with Combined Lamp and Scale
Drysdale-Tinsley Non-Inductive Low Resistance Standards or "Shunts"
Standard Wheatstone Bridges: Plug Pattern
Co-Ordinate Potentiometer
Potentiometer Shunts
Fleming Commutator
"Concentric" Potentiometer
Hydrogen Ion Determination by the Quinhydrone Electrode
Curve Tracer or Ondograph
Standard Self-Inductance Coils
High-Grade Resistance Boxes with "Dual" Sliding Contacts
"Dwarf" Galvanometer

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