Although one probably doesn't think about Gullliver's Travels in relation to metrology, when it comes to measuring the very small-as in the micro- or meso-scale-it is not inappropriate to consider Gulliver among the people of Brobdingnag, where he was very small and what we consider to be somewhat insignificant in size takes on enormous scale. As Patrick Lanthier, F25 product manager, Carl Zeiss IMT Corp. notes, for example, "Cleaning the part before measuring is critical to collecting reliable data. For example, cement dust can be anywhere from 3 to 100 microns, while a human hair could be 5 to 200 microns.
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