
Cutaway Drawings of Task/Able Multi-piece Balances
Task/Able multi-piece or two-piece balance consists of a inner rod and a outer shell joined by strain-gage flexures (or internal gages of balance normal, roll moment, axial). Howard Ward along with his brother Elmer Ward (founder of Task Corp.) engineered many balances and later worked as a consultant to Aerophysics Research Instruments.
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