The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
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ISBN13: 9780217582001
Paperback|9780217582001
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Bain-Gauge; the most efficient Form, Size, and Position. Deduced from Experiments with many Gauges, during several years. By Mr James Straton, Aberdeen. Communicated by the Author. (With a Plate.) It will appear paradoxical to many, as it long did to me, but seems nevertheless to be indubitable, that the most efficient rain-gauge, the most accurate by far, in testing circumstances, is the smallest, the simplest, and the least expensive gauge known. Three papers have appeared on the subject of rain and the rain-gauge during the last ten years; (1.) by James Dalma- hoy, Esq. (Philosophical Journal, Edinburgh, vol. xxxiii., pp. 8?10,1842), shewing that the quantity of rain increases in its progress downwards; (2.) by Thomas Stevenson, Esq., in the same volume of the Journal (pp. 10-21), on the imperfections of the gauges in use; and (3.) by the Rev. John Fleming, D.D. (Philosophical Journal, vol. lxvii., pp. 182-187, 1849) on a simple form of rain-gauge. The following is intended as supplemental to the preceding papers; and I wish to be understood as homologating their conclusions, except in so far as more extended experience has pointed out mistakes or suggested improvements. The great flood of '29 attracted special attention to the subject of rain in the north of Scotland. Gauges were soon after planted where they had never been before, and observers kept registers in Aberdeen and other places who had not previously done so; but so imperfectly were the essentials of size, shape, and proper position of the rain gauge understood, that, ten years afterwards, namely, at the close of 1839, there was abundant room for doubt as to whether the clouds had poured 25 inches, 34 inches, or some intermediate or other unknown quantity of water, on the granite city during said...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217582001 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217582001 |
| Weight | 1.02 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 In |
| List Price | $22.26 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 312 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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