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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments, by Robert P. Multhauf This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments Author: Robert P. Multhauf Release Date: May 22, 2010 [EBook #32482] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SELF-REG. METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS *** Produced by Colin Bell, Louise Pattison and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY: PAPER 23 THE INTRODUCTION OF SELF-REGISTERING METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS _Robert P. Multhauf_ THE FIRST SELF-REGISTERING INSTRUMENTS 99 SELF-REGISTERING SYSTEMS 105 CONCLUSIONS 114 _The Introduction of_ SELF-REGISTERING METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS _Robert P. Multhauf_ _The development of self-registering meteorological instruments began very shortly after that of scientific meteorological observation itself. Yet it was not until the 1860's, two centuries after the beginning of scientific observation, that the self-registering instrument became a factor in meteorology._ _This time delay is attributable less to deficiencies in the techniques of instrument-making than to deficiencies in the organisation of meteorology itself. The critical factor was the establishment in the 1860's of well-financed and competently directed meteorological observatories, most of which were created as adjuncts to astronomical observatories._ THE AUTHOR: _Robert P. Multhauf is head curator of the department of science and technology in the United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution._ The flowering of science in the 17th century was accompanied by an efflorescence of instrument invention as luxurious as that of science itself. Although there were foreshadowing events, this flowering seems to have owed much to Galileo, whose interest in the measurement of natural phenomena is well known, and who is himself credited with
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