 When the boiling point at the upper station alone is observed, and for the lower the level of the sea, or the register of a distinct barometer is taken, then the barometric reading had better be converted into feet, by the usual method of subtracting...  What to Observe: Or, The Traveller's Remembrancer - Page 543by Julian R. Jackson - 1841 - 577 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1854 - 538 pages
.... . 75" Ditto ditto below ... 83 Mean .... 79=Multiplier. . . 1-098 Correct altitude 2 • 566 ft. When the boiling point at the upper station alone...the usual method of subtracting its logarithm from 1-47712 (log. of 30 inches) and multiplying by -0006, as the differences in the column of " barometer... | |
 | 1833 - 754 pages
...Temperature of air, above, 35* below, 50 Mean 42,5 = multiplier, 1.022 Correct altitude, ft. 5365.5 2. When the boiling point at the upper station alone...the lower the level of the sea or the register of a distant barometer is taken, then the barometrical reading had better be converted into feet by the... | |
 | Edward Charles Frome - 1840 - 232 pages
...of the air above . . 75° Ditto ditto below . . 83 Mean 79 = Multiplier 1.098 Correct altitude 2566 feet. When the boiling point at the upper station...the usual method of subtracting its logarithm from 1.47712 (log. of 30 inches) and multiplying by .0006, as the differences in the column of " barometer... | |
 | Basil Jackson - 1847 - 410 pages
...1-118 50 -037 70 1-079 90 1-121 51 -039 71 1-081 91 1-123 228 TO DETERMINE ALTITUDES BY BOILING WATER. When the boiling point at the upper station alone...the usual method of subtracting its logarithm from 1-4?712 (log. of 30 inches) and multiplying by -0006, as the differences in the column of " barometer"... | |
 | Edward Charles Frome - 1850 - 292 pages
...68 1-075 88 1-116 49 1-035 69 1-077 89 1-118 50 1-037 70 1-079 90 1-121 51 1-039 71 1-081 91 1-123 When the boiling point at the upper station alone...the usual method of subtracting its logarithm from 1-47712 (log. of 30 inches) and multiplying by 6, as the differences in the column of " barometer "... | |
 | Sir Henry Edward Landor Thuillier - 1851 - 826 pages
...= Multiplier 1-098 Correct altitude 2-566 feet. Mean of Barometer Observations 2-649 Difference 83 When the boiling point at the upper station alone...the usual method of subtracting its logarithm from 1-47712 (log. of 30 inches) and multiplying by -0006, as the differences in the column of ' Barometer'... | |
 | 1860 - 936 pages
...Temperature of the air above 75° Ditto ditto below 83 Mean, 79o = multiplier . 1-098 Correct altitude 2566 When the boiling point at the upper station alone...barometer is taken, then the barometric reading had better he converted into feet, by the usual method of subtracting its logarithm from 1-47712 (log. of 30 inches)... | |
 | Edward Charles Frome - 1862 - 336 pages
...1-116 1-118 1-121 1-123 When the boiling point at the upper station alone is observed, the lower being the level of the sea, or the register of a distinct barometer, then the barometric reading had better be converted into fcet by the usual method of subtracting its... | |
 | Edward Charles Frome - 1873 - 446 pages
...station alone is observed, the lower being the level of the sea, or the register of a distinct barometer, then the barometric reading had better be converted...the usual method of subtracting its logarithm from 1 '4771 2 (log. of 30 inches) and multiplying by 6, as the differences in the column of " barometer... | |
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