From Swiss Watches to Modern-day Swiss Machining

From Swiss Watches to Modern-day Swiss Machining

You may equate the word “Swiss” with goods such as watches and chocolate, and you’d be correct. Not only is Swiss chocolate considered some of the best chocolate in the world, but the same holds for Swiss watches as well. In the 1800s, Swiss watchmakers made...
Optical Inspection Perfects Precision Glass Tubes

Optical Inspection Perfects Precision Glass Tubes

You may know the Hubble telescope for its beautiful images of space. However, it didn’t start that way. Initial photos were fuzzy—likely due to the telescope’s main mirror being “too flat.” It was out by only 2.2 microns or 1/50th of a human hair. The theory is that...