actinometer
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The actinometer consists of a large cylindrical thermometer bulb, with a scale considerably lengthened, so that minute changes may be easily seen.
From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry
You may sometimes find that the actinometer indicates a very different exposure from what the eye would lead you to expect.
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
It should register about 40 deg. with an actinometer used to test silver solutions.
From Photogravure by Blaney, Henry R.
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
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