Branch of engineering concerned with measuring instruments and automated control systems.
1 It could have been a tradition of instrument - making , a heritage that came from him.
2 He tells Lynn Freeman that, despite the invention of power tools, instrument - making really hasn't changed a lot over the centuries.
3 Correll, who was well fitted out with a lathe and all the requirements for instrument - making , attended to repairs, doing splendid service.
4 It is then without wonder that we find him after this temporarily bankrupt, and resorting to his skill in instrument - making to recover his fortunes.
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