Vertical Pendulum Tilt Meter
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Jump to navigationJump to search"As a result of the successful tests with the Claustral Pendulum, Bidston acquired a Graf-Askania vertical pendulum of its own, and installed it after modification." [1]
"In 1900 Biddston obtained its own Milne-Seismograph. and tables of its observations were published from 1901." [1]
The Dock Board felt that "meteorological observations could be taken with equal accuracy elsewhere" and the Dock Board's "interest in th unfelt tremors of the earth was not immediate".[1]
As a result of the successful tests with the Claustral Pendulum, Bidston acquired a Graf-Askania vertical pendulum of its own, and installed it after modification.[1]
Reading and changing the seismographic records was part of the daily routine in Bidston Observatory.[1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Joyce Scoffield, Bidston Observatory, The Place and the People. p328 Cite error: Invalid
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