How to Use the Aneroid Barometer: I. Comparisons in the Field, II. Experiments in the Workshop, III. Upon the Use of the Aneroid Barometer in ... IV. Recapitulation (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from How to Use the Aneroid Barometer: I. Comparisons in the Field, II. Experiments in the Workshop, III. Upon the Use of the Aneroid Barometer in Determination of Altitudes, IV. Recapitulation

The following paper is divided into four sections. The first records com parisons of the aneroid against the mercurial barometer in the field; the second is concerned with experimental research in the workshop the third is occupied by practical considerations arising from the facts recorded and the fourth is composed of a recapitulation of the principal points which are dwelt upon in the previous parts, and forms an index to the whole.

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