Pressure Sensors

  • Jacob Fraden
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Abstract

The pressure concept was primarily based on the pioneering work of Evangelista Torricelli who for a short time was a student of Galileo. During his experiments with mercury-filled dishes, in 1643, he realized that the atmosphere exerts pressure on earth [1]. A great French experimenter Blaise Pascal, in 1647, conducted an experiment with the help of his brother-in-law, Perier, on the top of the mountain Puy-de-Dôme and at its base. He observed that pressure exerted on the column of mercury depends on elevation. He named a mercury-in-vacuum instrument they used in the experiment the . In 1660, Robert Boyle stated his famous relationship:

Keywords

Pressure Sensor Temperature Compensation Heated Plate Capacitive Sensor Capacitive Pressure Sensor 
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  • Jacob Fraden
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  1. 1.Fraden Corp.San DiegoUSA

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