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EARLY HISTORY OF
INSTRUMENTATION

B. ADVANTAGES /
DISADVANTAGES
DBA

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 DEFINITION

►Instrument - device that measures, monitors and control

process variables.
►Instrumentation - as defined in ISA-5.2, is a collection of
instruments, devices, hardware or functions or their
applications for the purpose of measuring, monitoring or
controlling an industrial process or machine or any
combination of these.

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 BEFORE INVENTIONS OF INSTRUMENTS

How do we measure, monitor and control???

SOURCE:
https://www.cihconline.com/images/documents/presentations/CIHC%20Conf%202016%20pdf%20Presentations/Thursday%20AM/2016%20CIHC%20H%20Spielman%20History%20of%20Instrumentation.pdf

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 EARLY INSTRUMENT DEVICES
►ARMILLARY SPHERES
was known in ancient China; the ancient Greeks were also familiar with it and modified it to produce the
astrolabe, which could tell the time or length of day or night as well as measure solar and lunar altitudes.

►COMPASS
was known in ancient China; the ancient Greeks were also familiar with it and modified it to produce the
astrolabe, which could tell the time or length of day or night as well as measure solar and lunar altitudes.

►TELESCOPE
the primary astronomical instrument, was invented about 1608 by the Dutch optician HANS LIPPERSHEY and
first used extensively by Galileo.

►CENTRIFUGAL GOVERNOR
Invented by James Watt in 1788 to maintain the speed of a steam engine at a predetermined rate.

SOURCE: https://www.britannica.com/technology/instrumentation-technology

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 EARLY INSTRUMENT DEVICES
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 18TH & 19TH CENTURY
►MICROSCOPE

►SPECTROSCOPE - analyzes by wave length the light radiation given off by incandescent
substances, began to be used to identify the composition of chemical substances

GROWTH OF MODERN INDUSTRY 20TH CENTURY

►ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS 1950s -great capacity for information processing and
storage, virtually revolutionized methods of instrumentation, for it allowed the simultaneous
comparison and analysis of large amounts of information. At much the same
time, feedback systems were perfected in which data from instruments monitoring stages of a
process are instantaneously evaluated and used to adjust parameters affecting the process.
Feedback systems are crucial to the operation of automated processes.

SOURCE: https://www.britannica.com/technology/instrumentation-technology

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 ADVANTAGES
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*As agreed with class discussion for ICE 515 subject, section ME5103 of 1st sem of SY2019-2020

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 DISADVANTAGES
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*As agreed with class discussion

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