Atmospheric pressure at great heights: Anon. (Sci. Amer., cx, No. 18, 359.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1914
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 66 KB
• Volume: 178
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(14)90148-x

✦ Synopsis

Atmospheric Pressure at Great Heights. ANON. (Sci. Amer., cx, No. 18, 359.)--It is usually supposed that at great heights the pressure of the air is almost negligible, but the application of an ingenious method indicated by Ramsay gives interesting results.