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Heliographs

Scope note

Instruments that record the duration of sunshine and provide qualitative measurements of the amount of sunshine by the action of the sun's rays on blueprint paper. STEIN

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000197850

Broader Terms used

sunshine recorders

Equivalent Terms used

heliograph

Created

13yrs ago

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