The Aneroid Barometer: Its Construction and Use |
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Airy's altitude altitude scale amount of vapor ANALYSIS ANEROID BAROMETER Antarctic Ocean Barnaul baro Barometer Heights Barometer Readings C. E. Illustrated Civil Engineer cloth clouds CONSTRUCTION CONTINUOUS BRIDGES contouring correction dial difference dry air elevation engravings error formula George GEORGE W globe Guyot's HAND-BOOK heat heights in feet hemisphere HYPSOMETRY Inches increase indicates wind instrument IRON JOYNSON latitude lithographed plates logarithms lower station lustrated mean pressure measuring MECHANICS mercurial barometer mercury column Messrs METALS meter METHOD morocco movable scale NOSTRAND'S PUBLICATIONS NOSTRAND'S SCIENCE SERIES numerous observations perature Plympton portable Prac PRACTICAL TREATISE PRESCOTT Prof rainfall revised and enlarged Reykjavik scale of feet Siberia Spitzbergen STEAM STEAM-ENGINE steel summer SURVEYING tained tical tion Translated U. S. Navy unit of surface University of MICHIGAN upper station VAN NOSTRAND'S PUBLICATIONS variations varies W. H. CORFIELD weather Williamson wind and rain winter wood-cut illustrations Zerah Colburn
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Page 68 - ... wind. Misty clouds forming, or hanging on heights, show wind and rain coming — if they remain, increase, or descend. If they rise or disperse, the weather will improve or become fine.