gauges

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What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately. John Steinbeck

After World War II, in an attempt to overcome the difference in gauges and speed up traffic, a bogie exchange device lifted freight wagons and carriages allowing workers to refit rolling stock with different gauged wheel-sets. Source: Internet

Although a few manufacturers make rolling stock that can adjust to different rail gauges, most manufacturers make rolling stock that only works with one of the standard rail gauges. Source: Internet

A "glass" cockpit refers to the use of computer monitors instead of gauges and other analog displays. Source: Internet

Aneroid gauges are not dependent on the type of gas being measured, unlike thermal and ionization gauges, and are less likely to contaminate the system than hydrostatic gauges. Source: Internet

A journey from Philadelphia to Charleston involved eight different gauges, which meant that passengers and freight had to change trains seven times. Source: Internet