actinometer

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Then note down everything you have done—kind of view, stop, speed of plate, exposure of each plate, and length of exposure of actinometer.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 by Various

The actinometer indicated an exposure of thirty seconds where in good light one would be right.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 by Various

Herschell’s actinometer and Pouillet’s pyrheliometer, instruments for ascertaining the absolute heating effect of the sun’s rays, should, however, be more generally employed by meteorologists.

From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry

It should register about 40 deg. with an actinometer used to test silver solutions.

From Photogravure by Blaney, Henry R.

Another object was, to bring down specimens of air from different altitudes, for analysis; to try the effect of the actinometer at great elevations; and to note the hygrometric condition.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 by Chambers, Robert