actinometer

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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

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 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

A Johnson's actinometer is very useful to time the exposure.

From Photogravure by Blaney, Henry R.