Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 559
s. Thus, although with an air-thermometer we canmeasure temperatures with accuracy to the hundredth of a Centi-grade degree, yet it requires a day to make a single observation.Tlie air-thermometer is, therefore, of no use, except in the fewcases which require the very highest degree of scientific… … Fig. 388. (264.) RegnauWs Air-Thermometer. — The air-thermometer,which is iised only in delicate measurements of temperature, isrepresented in Figs. 388 and 389. It consists of a cylindricalreservoir of glass, B, opening into a capillary tube bent at right HEAT. 535 angles and drawn out to a fine…
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