Warren Knight Industries
Manufacturers of Precision Measuring Instruments and Alignment Systems
We are experts in optical, electronic and laser alignment systems today with a rich history of design and manufacturing specialty instruments. Since 1908, clients have come to use to help develop land surveying equipment, distance measuring instruments used in nautical applications and angle measuring tools used in meteorological & surveying applications. The US Department of Defense tapped us years ago to design army boresights for tanks, military boresigting tools for Navy ships and have been the go-to resource for precision alignment systems for military guns for many years. As a result of our can-do mindset, our product lines are diverse and innovative. If you are looking for specialty instruments for aerospace, engineering, nautical and surveying applications, we invite you to search our product catalog or request a quote for a custom designed instrument here.
Land Surveying & Scientific Instrument Designs That Helped Map The World
Back in the day, Warren Knight Instrument Company operated in Center City Philadelphia designing, manufacturing and selling precision surveying and charting equipment such as theodolites, Alidades, nautical telescopes and optical levels. In addition to our topographical surveying clients were meteorologists were trying to track and measure horizontal and vertical angles of weather balloons so we continued inventing new instruments. Henry Warren brought his grandson (Henry Knight) into the business before World War I and together they designed precision instrumentation as the needs arose.
In 1963, the company needed more manufacturing space and moved to Northeast Philadelphia. We have continued to be flexible in our designs as technology changed and today our quality precision instruments are used by clients all over the world for aerospace, engineering, meteorological, metrological, nautical and surveying applications. By continually expanding our capabilities and upgrading our facility, we continue to maintain the level of excellence and technological sophistication you have come to expect from an industry leader.
In 1977 Warren-Knight Company became incorporated as Warren Industries, Inc., splitting into two divisions: Warren-Knight Instrument Company and the North American Supply Company. The Warren-Knight Instrument Company continues as the manufacturing division and the North American Supply Company became the leading dealer and distributer fornot only our products, but also all other makes and models of PRECISION SURVEYING, ENGINEERING, SCIENTIFIC and OPTICAL TOOLING INSTRUMENTS.
In 1980, we had our North American Survey Supply company team focus more on the changing needs of our surveying clients and you can learn more about NASS here: https://www.nasurvey.com/
Optical & Laser Alignment Instruments
We have been designing and manufacturing optical alignment instruments since 1908. These optical tools provide the highest degree of accuracy when aligning precision systems that need to be straight, flat, plumb or square. There are still many applications where optical alignment telescopes, levels and collimators are superior to lasers for accuracy. Especially when we are calculating for curvatures.
The laser alignment tools we have developed, such as a laser clinometer and various laser distance measuring instruments have been designed for specific clients under our custom alignment tools team where we design products for a specific purpose. If you have a measuring challenge that requires a new instrument to be designed, contact us here to get the conversation started.