{"id":310058,"date":"2017-05-03T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c333a3d4bbe4f9ea5b9aba7f95169466"},"modified":"2017-05-03T07:49:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:49:09","slug":"a-faster-way-to-calibrate-piston-gauges-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=310058","title":{"rendered":"A faster way to calibrate piston gauges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For industry and government labs to ensure their pressure-measurement machines are working correctly, they need a reliable source of pressure. Often, that source is a piston gauge \u2013 a cylinder of metal that falls through a hollow cylinder or &#8220;sleeve&#8221; at a predictable rate. Staff at NIST&#8217;s Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) perform precise calibrations of piston gauges for customers including the Navy, the Army, airlines, and power utility companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For industry and government labs to ensure their pressure-measurement machines are working correctly, they need a reliable source of pressure. Often, that source is a piston gauge &ndash; a cylinder of metal that falls through a hollow cylinder or &#8220;sleeve&#8221; at a predictable rate. Staff at NIST&#8217;s Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) perform precise calibrations of piston gauges for customers including the Navy, the Army, airlines, and power utility companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310059,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310058\/revisions\/310059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}