The balloon slowly rose till the aneroid marked a height of 1,500 feet and still the current drove it steadily north-west.
The balloon swiftly rose, and the aneroid marked 2,500 feet.
The gas in the box, changing it bulk on a change of temperature, was intended to compensate for the effect on the metals of which the aneroid is made.
This is often necessary, on receiving or first using an aneroid that has long been lying by, or that has been shaken by travelling.
In ascending or descending elevations, the hand of the aneroid may be seen to move (like the hand of a watch), showing the height above the level of the sea, or the difference of level between places of comparison.
I myself felt uncomfortable about the danger of sudden immersion, for it was very possible that a change in barometric conditions could have made the aneroid show a false reading.
And hasn't this aneroid barometer got cards and spades over the old-style models?
But though they ascended till the aneroid showed eight thousand five hundred feet, nothing met their gaze but the same pearly blue vapor which veiled the mystery before them.
The needle of the aneroid fastened to the wall of the sitting-room, and in reach of everybody's eye, had also made a night of it.
Uncle Isaac shook his head when he swept his eye round at all this loveliness; then he turned on his heel and took a look at theaneroid fastened to the wall of the sitting-room of the Life-Saving Station.
An aneroid barometer, to indicate extreme pressures of the atmosphere.
You see," said the Professor, "we have now only the pressure of our atmosphere, and I shall be glad when the aneroid takes the place of the barometer.
As he is assured by a first-rate instrument maker, Chadburn, of Liverpool, that an aneroid can be constructed to measure any depth, he has thought it best to furnish the adventurous professor with this more familiar instrument.
The hill was farther off and higher than it appeared at first; the aneroid showed a rise of 700 feet when we reached the top.
Five aneroid barometers: One large instrument with thermometer attached, without name or number.
She sat down at the table as if her knees had given way, and her strong white hand fell slackly on Philippa's purchase, the old aneroid barometer, and rested there.
The mercurial barometer is so delicate and cumbersome that for many practical purposes it is replaced by the more convenient though less accurate aneroid barometer.
In the aneroid barometer, a thin-walled metal box, exhausted of air, undergoes changes of shape in response to changes in atmospheric pressure.
In the Far East mariners use for locating typhoons an ingenious combination of the storm card and the aneroid barometer, called the "barocyclonometer," an invention of the Rev.
Re effects of an explosion upon structures with intervening objects left intact, Fauntleroy notes that a shell bursting three yards from an aneroid barometer may force its levers into an abnormal position.
In particular, one thinks of the physical changes within an aneroid barometer, which have been shown to come about when something is exploded near by.
As he took Mac's aneroid barometer out of his pocket, a sudden gust cut across his raw and bleeding cheek.
The hand of the aneroid that I had looked at was fast moving, while the under part of the balloon had risen high above the car.
But over the estuary there must have been a cold upper current blowing, which crippled our balloon, for the aneroid presently told of a fall of 2,000 feet.
I had still strength to tap the aneroid barometer to facilitate the movement of the needle.
This gravel is about 125 feet (aneroid measurement) above the Baraboo river to the north.
The level of this mixed local and glacial material is (according to aneroid measurement) approximately the same as that of the other localities.
With me I had two aneroids, which together we had previously noted and compared with a standard aneroid remaining in camp under your immediate observation; also a Fahrenheit thermometer.
By a good aneroid the altitude of the bank, which was about twenty feet above the river, was 2,388 feet above the sea.
All streams and water-courses flowed in their direction, while their aneroid showed them that they were gradually descending.
Four days later, after crossing a ridge of mountains that the pressure on the aneroid barometer showed to be about thirty-two thousand feet high, and a stretch of flat country a few miles in width, they came to a great arm of the sea.
The Richard registering thermometer is similar, the aneroid being replaced by an alcohol-filled Bourdon tube.
Hipp, who was perhaps the latest of this group, first applied the aneroid barometer (fig.
Because of its superior accuracy to the aneroid barograph, Marvin's barometer was in use through the 1940's.
The aneroid barometer, and my watch are seen suspended alongside.
An aneroid is therefore a valuable help to mountaineers for determining their altitude above sea-level.
The vacuum chamber of an aneroid barometer extended and compressed.
A good aneroid is so delicate that it will register the difference in pressure caused by raising it from the floor to the table, where it has a couple of feet less of air-column resting upon it.
Aneroid means "without moisture," and in this particular connection signifies that no liquid is used in the construction of the barometer.
The principle is employed in another form for the aneroid barometer (p.
On account of their size and weight, and the comparative difficulty of transporting them without derangement of the mercury column, column barometers are not so generally used as the aneroid variety.
Returning to Fernando Po, found that part of the liquid has lodged in upper bulb, and therefore corrected index error by standard aneroid 1.
At Banza Simbo, half way up Vivi range, aneroid 29.
The Carey aneroid gives a still higher figure, and the Boylean-Mariotti mercurial barometer entirely refused to work.
I first took the lake to be the head of an arm of the sea, but, going down to its shore and tasting it, I found it fresh, and by my aneroid perhaps less than a hundred feet above sea-level.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aneroid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
