actinometer

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The mystery was not a new type of infernal machine as they imagined but merely a home-made actinometer!

From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Mahoney, Henry Charles

The actinometer of M. Violle is, in principle, a sphere of copper, blackened externally, and having inside a thermometric apparatus which registers some distance away.

From Sounding the Ocean of Air by Rotch, A. Lawrence

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

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

From Photogravure by Blaney, Henry R.

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