Proceedings of the British Meteorological Society, 2권

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199 페이지 - Thus it is a law of the nature of water that under the mean pressure of the atmosphere at the level of the sea, it boils at 212° Fahrenheit.
256 페이지 - Meteorological Society be communicated to the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers for having granted the Society free permission to hold its Meetings in the rooms of the Institution.
31 페이지 - ... there is also some reason to believe that on one occasion our luminary was caught in the very act. On the 1st of September, 1859, two astronomers, Messrs. Carrington and Hodgson, were independently observing the sun's disc, which exhibited at that time a very...
244 페이지 - He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries, and a prominent Member of, and also Secretary to, the Boxburgh Club, and belonged to many other learned institutions.
443 페이지 - Eobinson's anemometer, during this time the motion of the air was six miles only. On April 6 the balloon left the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, at 4h. 8m. PM Its correct path is not known, as it entered several different currents of air, the earth being invisible owing to the mist ; it descended at Sevenoaks, in Kent, at 5h.
441 페이지 - ... in their ascents in June and July, 1850, from Paris. These gentlemen made two ascents for scientific purposes, and although from accidents the ascents were of short duration, the results were of high interest. Among them they noticed that they passed through a cloud of icicles, which sustained themselves in the air, as it appeared to them, contrary to the laws of gravity ; but upon their horizontal surfaces they saw beneath them, however, an exact image of the sun, formed by the...
443 페이지 - ... this time the motion of the air was six miles only. On April 6, the balloon left the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, at 4h 8m PM : its correct path is not known, as it entered several different currents of air, the earth being invisible owing to the mist; it descended at Sevenoaks, in Kent, at...
440 페이지 - France till they have crossed the whole of Spain and the high mountain range of the Pyrenees ; and by the time they have crossed that mountainous country they are so much cooled that France can derive comparatively little benefit from them, and hence apparently her more severe winters. Another fact may be inferred from this winter trip ; it has always been a matter of great difficulty to me to account for the simultaneous appearance of dense fog over the whole country, and extending far out to sea...
171 페이지 - Into the cylinder this thermometer d, is introduced, the stem of which is protected by a piece of brass tubing. We thus obtain the temperature of the mercury. The flat end of the cylinder is to be turned towards the sun, and the surface thus presented is coated with lampblack.
419 페이지 - It should always be remembered that the state of the air foretells coming weather, rather than shows the weather that is present — an invaluable fact, too often overlooked, that the longer the time between the signs and the change foretold by them, the longer such altered weather will last ; and, on the contrary, the less the time between a warning and a change, the shorter will be the continuance of such foretold weather.

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