Boyden and his colleagues used the method to perform super-resolution imaging of a 10 million cubic micrometer chunk of tissue from the mouse hippocampus, stained with antibodies against three different neuronal proteins, using a standard confocal fluorescence microscope.
Out of curiosity, Babbage used a digital micrometer to compare the thickness of the metal chassis of his 12-year-old desktop with the innards of a two-year-old.
Using an improved micrometer of his own design, he made accurate measurements of the polar and equatorial diameters of the Sun.
The exact position of the index mark (showing the direction of the line of sight) between two of these graduations is measured on both sides of the circle with the aid of a vernier or a micrometer.
He also invented the micrometer microscope to measure the size of minute objects.
His micrometer made of rock crystal, announced in 1821, was used by the English astronomer William Rutter Dawes in measuring close double stars.
The vernier, an auxiliary scale permitting more accurate readings (1631), the micrometer microscope (1638), telescopic sights (1669), and spirit levels (about 1700) were all incorporated in theodolites by about 1720.
Manufacturing processes of the time required instruments capable of achieving new standards of linear precision, met in part by the screw micrometer, special models of which could attain a precision of 0.000025 mm (0.000001 inch).
He took a course in Montrose in order to be licensed to use a bowling-lane micrometer.
The meat, cooked medium-rare unless requested otherwise, is juicy, with a thrillingly dark crust; the bun's fluffiness seems to have been calibrated to the precise cubic micrometer to offset the richness of the meat.
Who got the biggest slice of pie? Attempting to forestall quarrels, our mother cut portions so nearly identical it would have taken a micrometer to tell them apart.
