The Condensed Handbook of Measurement and Control 3rd Edition N. E. Battikha

The Condensed

Handbook

of Measurement and Control

3rd Edition

N. E. Battikha

This book is dedicated to the pioneers of measurement and control. This technology took its first
steps along the Nile Valley about 2600 B.C., when Egyptian engineers began using precise yet simple
measuring devices to level the foundation for building the Great Pyramid and employing weirs
to measure and distribute irrigation water across the fertile delta. Much more recently, hundreds of
dedicated people tinkering in their home and labs, working late at night, and overcoming failures
and frustrations, created the powerful computer technology we now rely on.
Without these pioneers, whose first tentative steps thousands of years ago have accelerated into
today’s full-speed sprint toward on-going advances, the world of measurement and control would
not exist and this book would never have been written. And instead of being an I&C engineer, I
would have devoted the past three decades to a profession far less interesting and rewarding

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