Taylor Hobson

Taylor Hobson is an English company founded in 1886 and located in Leicester, England.

Taylor Hobson is now part of Ametek's Ultra Precision Technologies Group.

As a result, he started to design instruments capable of helping him evaluate surface texture and roundness.

After other manufacturers in various domains became aware of this, they requested to purchase these instruments.

He refused, as the invented instruments were crucial to Taylor Hobson's optical lenses supremacy.