Sounding the Ocean of Air; Being Six Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Institute of Boston, in December 1898
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The lowest tempera- ture of —88° Fahrenheit was supposed to be too high, for the reason that whereas the ventilation of the thermometers in a rapidly ascending or descending balloon might be sufficient to counter- act solar radiation, this would not be the case when the balloon was approaching its culminating point with a diminishing speed. Therefore, Dr.
Assmann, under whose supervision the German ex- periments were conducted, employed the thermo- meter, which in the captive balloon was aspira...ted electrically, but now was driven by a weight, and later, because the ink froze, the registration was made photographic. The efficacy of the aspirator was seen in the ascent referred to, for, when its action stopped, a higher temperature was recorded though the balloon continued to ascend. In April 1895 the Cirrus rose to the extraordinary height of 72,000 feet, or more than thirteen and a quarter miles, where the barometric pressure was reduced to one and a half inches of mercury. (In Plate I.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The lowest tempera- ture of —88° Fahrenheit was supposed to be too high, for the reason that whereas the ventilation of the thermometers in a rapidly ascending or descending balloon might be sufficient to counter- act solar radiation, this would not be the case when the balloon was approaching its culminating point with a diminishing speed. Therefore, Dr.
Assmann, under whose supervision the German ex- periments were conducted, employed the thermo- meter, which in the captive balloon was aspira...ted electrically, but now was driven by a weight, and later, because the ink froze, the registration was made photographic. The efficacy of the aspirator was seen in the ascent referred to, for, when its action stopped, a higher temperature was recorded though the balloon continued to ascend. In April 1895 the Cirrus rose to the extraordinary height of 72,000 feet, or more than thirteen and a quarter miles, where the barometric pressure was reduced to one and a half inches of mercury. (In Plate I.
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