A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 22
es,anemometers, sunshine recorders, etc., on theroof. In order to obtain the temperature andmoisture of the air, it is considered necessarythat the thermometers shall be exposed freelyto the wind and yet be perfectly shielded fromthe suns rays by day and from their own radia-tion to the clear sky… … (OBSERVATORY AT WILLIAMS BAY, WISCONSIN (See the figures in the text and Plate II) Interior of the revolving dome. The telescoperevolves on an axis parallel to the earths axis ofrotation ; it is driven by clockwork so that a star iskept in the centre of the field of vision. The observing slit is 13…
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