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 Henry Charles Mahoney
When you get home, the first thing to do is to get hold of a paint box and paint the underside of the glass of your actinometer to match the darkened paper.
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
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 Henry Negretti
A selenium actinometer has been described in the Comptes Rendus in a communication from M. Morize, of Rio de Janeiro.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 by Various
