Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder
Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder Device that utilizes a glass sphere to concentrate the Sun's rays on to a calibrated paper, where the resulting burns register the time and duration of sunshine. The instrument must be pre-set for a given latitude.
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