statometern.

1884 tr. P. Picard in Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 76 475 The statometer is arranged as a Prony brake, and consists of a sleeve mounted with a long arm. This arm, balanced by counterweights, can oscillate between two fixed limits, and carries at its extremity a pan to receive the weights.

1950 U.S. Patent 2,498,995 3 With the engine running in a horizontal position..the thrust can be measured by means of a spring balance or statometer connected to the side frames or housings.

1890 Lancet 27 Dec. 1389/2 MM. Wecker and Masselon have devised an ophthalmo-statometer.]

1892 A. Duane tr. E. Fuchs Text-bk. Ophthalmol. ii. xv. 581 For measuring the degree of exophthalmus, instruments have been constructed, which are called exophthalmometers or statometers.

1898 Pharmaceut. Era 20 381/1 He was standing on the upper deck, Just a little to the side of the turret, and was taking the range of the ships with a statometer.

1916 Ann. Rep. Adjutant-General Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1915 107 The rafts were anchored and the range laid out..using the statometer and the masthead of the ‘Chicago’ for determining the distance, the ‘Chicago’ being run on bearings until correct distance was found by statometer from raft.

1950 N. S. Bond Remarkable Exploits Lancelot Biggs viii. 75 Biggs rose. He looked carefully at the clock, then at the statometer. He..called to the engine room below.

1952 P. O. Fagerholm Study Mech. Radial Triangulation 33-3 Helicopter statometer surveying is used in inaccessible areas.

1947 Tele-tech July 85/3 Damage caused by discharges of static electricity can be avoided by use of the Davis Statometer, a portable, self-contained instrument.

1961 Brit. Patent 868,809 2/2 The untreated taffeta, on measuring the field intensity on the constantly rotating fabric with the statometer on glass, steel or copper as the rubbing surface, shows a charge of 500–5000 volt/cm.

1970 U.S. Patent 3,548,036 3 The charge is determined with a commercial Statometer.

1990 A. Dutta & L. V. Dullea in L.-S. Fan Adv. in Fluidization Engin. 27/2 A Herfurth Statometer H 1407 was used to measure electrostatic potentials for powder mixtures.

1957 K. Bjerver & P. A. Persson in Arch. Internat. de Pharmacodynamie et de Thérapie Nov. 249 For the purpose of obtaining a continuous and quantitative recording of the deviations of the centre of gravity from an initial position during standing an apparatus, called the statometer, has been constructed.

1968 Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 44 92 The static equilibrium, or body-sway in erect posture, may be recorded in several ways. We have used a ‘Statometer’ developed at the Department of Alcohol Research, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.

1979 Undersea Biomed. Res. 6 15 Body sway with open and closed eyes was measured in lateral and sagittal directions by a statometer device.

2012 R. Laureno in S. H. Subramony & A. Dürr Ataxic Disorders x. 175/2 Romberg's test can reveal 3/s oscillations in the anterior-posterior direction when a statometer is used to enhance the sensitivity of the test.