A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 22
s,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 fieelyto the wind and yet be perfectly shielded fromthe suns rays by day and from their own radia-tion to the clear sky at… … OBSERVATORY AT WILLIAMS HAY, WISCONSLN (See the figures in the text and Plate ID Interior of the revolving; dome. The telescoperevolves on an axis parallel to the earths axis ofrotation; it is flriven by clockwork so that a star iskept in the centre of the field of vision. The observing slit is 13…
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