Tinsley Precision Instruments
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Pioneering Work at Tinsley

Here is a summary of our major developments over the years.

1905
Weston Standard Cells-first commercially manufactured in England by H. Tinsley
1908 
Drysdale Phase Shifters
1909
Non-Inductive Shunts -Drysdale
Ayrton Mather Moving Coil Galvanometers
1910
Vibration Galvanometer Drysdale & Tinsley
Tinsley Vernier Potentiometer with Slide Wire
1912
Drysdale a.c. Polar Potentiometer
Standardizing Bridge
Torsion Head Dynamometer Polyphase Wattmeter-
Drysdale
Kelvin double bridge with standards
1914
Optical Parallelism tester for checking binoculars
Syphon Recorders and Telegraph Apparatus
Absorption Photometer for testing whiteness
Condensers for Submarine Cables and Artificial
Lines
Precision Mica Condensers
1915
Engine Testing Stroboscopic Speed measuring
Apparatus with Dr. Aston
1920
High Precision Vernier Potentiometer
1921 
Introduction of self-contained Reflecting Galvanometer
1922 
Gall Co-ordinate A.C. Potentiometer
1925 
Continuously pumped Cathode Ray Oscillographs
for explosion tests. Forerunner of the electron microscope
1926 
Non-Inductive Coils and Resistance Boxes
1927 
Very large d.c. shunts up to 30,000 amps
Current Transformer Calibrating Equipment
1928 
Apparatus for duplexing submarine cables
Coxes Submarine Cable Relays
Smith Bridge for Precision Platinum Resistance Thermometry
1930 
Tuning Forks and Phonic Motors with Dr. A.B. Wood
A.C. short circuit shunts up to 200,000 amps
1930 
Marine Biological Apparatus with Dr. W.R.G. Atkins
Iron Testing Equipment
High Precision Vernier Potentiometer
1932 
Geophysical Prospecting equipment using electrical methods - Mr. A. Broughton Edge 
1933
Moving Coil Vibration Galvanometer
Instrument Switches Dual Contact
1936 
Self-contained illuminated galvanometers as limit bridges for high speed equipment testing
1939 
Mast Head wind direction indicators for J. Class Yachts
Galvanometers with optical magnifiers
Galvanometer d.c. Amplifier for automatic control
Submarine detecting apparatus
Air interception radar apparatus
Strain Gauge Bridges
Radio Sondes
Anemometers
Helographs. Auto pilot test gear
Shell hardness testers
1944 
A.C. and D.C. Stabilisers
Flour Colour Graders
Platinum Resistance Thermometers
1959 
Very High Precision Potentiometer for discrimination to 1 part in 10,000,000
Infra red bolometers
1961
Infra red Fault Locating equipment
Galvanometer amplifiers
1962 
Automatic Current Controllers applied to automatic
precision measurement
1963 
Stabaumatic Potentiometer
Automatic Flour Graders
Inductive Ratiometers
Automatic Potentiometers
1965 - 7
Decade Inductive Voltage Divider
1965 
Temperature Controlled Standard Cell Enclosure 12 Cells
Temperature Controlled Standard Cell Enclosure 4 Cells
1966 
Self Calibrating Volt Ratio Box
1967 
Inductively Coupled Temperature Bridge (NPL design)
1969
AC/DC Standard Resistors (NPL design F J Wilkins)
Thermodynamic Efficiency Bridge
1970
DC Submarine Cable Test Set
Digital Coil Turns Tester
Rhodium/Iron Thermometers NPL design Dr R L Rusby
1971 
Series 3 Flour Colour Grader
1974 
Organic Pollution Monitor
Direct Reading AC Comparison Bridge for Standard Resistors
1976
Hydraulic Efficiency Bridge
Digital Power Loss Measuring System (British Steel)
1977
Direct Reading AC Resistance Thermometer Bridge (NPL design Dr R B D Knight)
Digital Milliohmeter
1978
Digital Micro-Ohmmeter
Improved Version of the DC Submarine Cable Test Set
Lift Overload Indicator
Transformer Core Tester
1979 
Shorted Turns tester
1982 
Automatic AC Resistance Thermometer Bridge
1984
Temperature Controlled Enclosure for Standard Resistors
1985
Series 4 Flour Colour Grader
1986
Field of Vision Analyser (Dr Henson)
Three Range Automatic Resistance Thermometer Bridge
Electroding Generator
1987
Single Channel Strain Gauge Meter
10 Channel Strain Gauge Meter
1989
Programmable Automatic Resistance Thermometer Bridge
Digital Micro-Ohmmeter with Auto zero
1990
Micro-Ohmmeter for Transformer Testing
1991
Electroding Detector
1994
Short Haul Submarine Cable Test Set
1996
Coil Turns Tester with Computer Interface
Submarine Cable Test Set Mk V
1999
25 Amp Micro-Ohmmeter
100 Amp Micro-Ohmmeter
200 Amp Micro-Ohmmeter
2000
Beach Probe for Locating Submarine Telephone Cables.

 

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