tasimeter
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Etymology
Origin of tasimeter
C19 tasi-, from Greek tasis tension + -meter
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Edison brought one of his devices, a tasimeter, to measure minute shifts in heat from the Sun's corona during the eclipse.
From Nature ● May 23, 2017
The lure of 1878 was the opportunity to try the ability of his delicate tasimeter during the total eclipse of the sun, July 29.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
Last but not least, in this beautiful and ingenious series, comes the "tasimeter," an instrument of most delicate sensibility in the presence of heat.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
The tasimeter measures the heat even of the far away stars.
From Stories of Great Inventors Fulton, Whitney, Morse, Cooper, Edison by Macomber, Hattie E.
The second includes devices like the tasimeter, phonomotor, odoroscope, etc., and others now to be noted.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
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