BOURDON GAUGE Definition & Meaning

Bourdon gauge

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a type of aneroid pressure gauge consisting of a flattened curved tube attached to a pointer that moves around a dial. As the pressure in the tube increases the tube tends to straighten and the pointer indicates the applied pressure

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Origin of Bourdon gauge¹

C19: named after Eugène Bourdon (1808–84), French hydraulic engineer, who invented it

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One of the commonest forms, known as the Bourdon gauge, depends on the fact that a curved tube tends to straighten itself if the pressure within it is greater than that outside it.

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