PRIOR to the outbreak of the war there were still a large number of engineering firms in this country which had not adopted systems of precision in the manufacture of component parts. War conditions ...

University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision measurement at the nanometer scale in scenarios where background noise and ...

How innovations in visibility, usability, and smart sensing are changing who uses tools—and how. For centuries, measurement tools have been essential to architecture, engineering, construction, real ...