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Definition of Torsion balance
1. Noun. Measuring instrument designed to measure small forces by the torsion they exert on a thin wire.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Torsion Balance
Literary usage of Torsion balance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1887)
"IN the ordinary form of the torsion balance used as a weighing machine, any change
of level of the base of the balance throws the center of gravity of the ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"torsion balance, an instrument in which small forces are measured by noting the
torsion ... In applying the torsion balance to the measurement of electrical ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1887)
"IN the ordinary form of the torsion balance used as a weighing machine, any change
of level of the base of the balance throws the center of gravity of the ..."
4. Matter and Motion by James Clerk Maxwell (1878)
"John Michel! for this purpose was that which has since received the name of the
torsion balance. Michell died before he was able to make the experiment, ..."
5. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Augustin Privat-Deschanel (1883)
"Coulomb's Torsion-balance.—Coulomb, who was the first to make electricity an
accurate science, employed in his researches an instrument which is often ..."
6. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1858)
"torsion balance. 582. The instrument called the torsion balance, invented by
Coulomb,* exceeds all others in delicacy and the power of measuring small ..."
7. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1884)
"THE TORSION-BALANCE. BY ALFRED SPRINGER, PH.D., CINCINNATI, O. CHEMISTS, physicists
and others, whose occupations necessitate the useof fine scales, ..."
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