 Ball micrometers have ball-shaped (spherical) anvils.

They may have one flat and one

ball anvil, in which case they are used for measuring tube wall thickness, distance of a hole
to an edge, and other distances where one anvil must be placed against a rounded surface.
They differ in application from tube micrometers in that they may be used to measure against
rounded surfaces which are not tubes, but the ball anvil may also not be able to fit into
smaller tubes as easily as a tube micrometer. Ball micrometers with a pair of balls can be
used when single-tangential-point contact is desired on both sides. The most common
example is in measuring the pitch diameter of screw threads (which is also done with conical
anvils or the 3-wire method, the latter of which uses similar geometry as the pair-of-balls
approach).

 Bore micrometer, typically a three-anvil head on a micrometer base used to accurately

measure inside diameters.

 Blade micrometers have a matching set of narrow tips (blades). They allow, for
example, the measuring of a narrow o-ring groove.

Platform scale

 Counting scales - are used to measure quantity of items when the weight of a single unit
is known, and these scales are often used to count money quickly and with precision. 

application
- Counting scales are primarily used for inventory control and collating shipments -
where multiple items of the same size need to be counted.
Function