To ensure accuracy he went through a course of instruction in the use of instruments, learning to make, test, and reduce astronomical and hypsometrical observations, and acquired proficiency in the then difficult art of photography.
When he went to Alaska he carried with him all the hypsometrical instruments that were used in the ascent as well as his personal climbing equipment.
It was bitterly cold, yet my fingers, though numb, were usable when I reached the top; it was in exposing them to manipulate the hypsometrical instruments that they lost all feeling and came nigh freezing.
The elevation by hypsometrical apparatus of this camp (N.
While I was busy taking altitude observations with the hypsometrical apparatus I kept my eye on them, as I saw plainly that I was coming in for trouble.
Observations with the hypsometrical apparatus gave an elevation of 772 ft.
On this magnificent island we halted at five o'clock in the afternoon, and I took altitude observations with the hypsometrical apparatus: 1,062 ft.
On May 22nd I took observations with the hypsometrical apparatus in order to obtain the correct elevation, and also as a check to the several aneroids I was using for differential altitudes.
The sextant was looked upon with great suspicion, and even more so the hypsometrical apparatus, with its thermometers in brass tubes, which they took to be some sort of firearm.
The hypsometrical apparatus, a device used for measuring heights by means of boiling-point thermometers, which had been specially constructed for work at great elevations.
Zimmerman, Carl, hypsometrical remarks on the elevation of the Himalayas, 32.
Climatic distribution of heat in the atmosphere, as the effect of the relative position of transparent and opaque masses (fluid and solid superficial area), and of the hypsometrical configuration of continents.
Individual conformation in horizontal extension (relations of articulation) and in vertical elevation (hypsometrical views).
At page 26 of this work we referred to the hypsometrical or boiling-point apparatus used in taking altitudes.
The water of the hypsometrical apparatus boiled at 185° Fahr.
As I never carry any when travelling, I could not offer them any recognised drink, but not wishing to disappoint them, I produced a bottle of methylated spirits (which I used for my hypsometrical apparatus).
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