Airopaidia : $b Containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785, taken from minutes made during the voyage; hints on the improvement of balloons ... To which is subjoined, mensuration of heights by the barometer, made plain; with extensive tables. The whole serving as an introduction to aërial navigation.Baldwin, Thomas
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Airopaidia : $b Containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785, taken from minutes made during the voyage; hints on the improvement of balloons ... To which is subjoined, mensuration of heights by the barometer, made plain; with extensive tables. The whole serving as an introduction to aërial navigation.
Baldwin, Thomas
Aeronautics -- Early works to 1900; Balloons -- Early works to 1800
| 121 | 12 | 24 | 36 | 48 | 60 | 73 | 85 | 97 | 109 |
| 122 | 12 | 24 | 37 | 49 | 61 | 73 | 85 | 98 | 110 |
| 123 | 12 | 25 | 37 | 49 | 61 | 74 | 86 | 98 | 111 |
| 124 | 12 | 25 | 37 | 50 | 62 | 74 | 87 | 99 | 112 |
| 125 | 12 | 25 | 37 | 50 | 62 | 75 | 87 | 100 | 112 |
| 126 | 13 | 25 | 38 | 50 | 63 | 76 | 88 | 101 | 113 |
| 127 | 13 | 25 | 38 | 51 | 63 | 76 | 89 | 102 | 114 |
| 128 | 13 | 26 | 38 | 51 | 64 | 77 | 90 | 102 | 113 |
| 129 | 13 | 26 | 39 | 52 | 64 | 77 | 90 | 103 | 116 |
| 130 | 13 | 26 | 39 | 52 | 65 | 78 | 91 | 104 | 117 |
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END OF THE SECOND STAGE.
374. The Ends proposed in the third and last Stage of the Work, are,
first, to add the _general_ Temperatures of the Air, or detached
Air-Thermometers, at each Place of Observation _above_ and _below_,
into one Sum.
Secondly, to divide that Sum: each Moiety of which is called the _mean
Temperature_ of the Air.
Thirdly, to apply that Moiety to each Barometer, (both of which have
been already brought to the Standard-Temperature of 31°. 24;) in order
to prove whether the Moiety (or Quantity of Heat assigned to each
Barometer by the _general_ Temperature of the Air) _exceeded_, _fell
short of_, or equalled the Standard-Temperature of the Barometers, by
the 2d Table.
And fourthly, from the Moiety or mean Temperature of the Air, to find
the true Height of the upper Barometer: which Temperature resolves
itself into three Cases.
375. 1st. If the Moiety or mean Temperature of the Air is greater than
the Standard Temperature, viz. that to which the Barometers are now
brought; find the Expansion of Air corresponding to such _Excess_ of
Temperature by the fourth Table, which Height by Expansion, being added
to the Height already found in the 2d Table, shews the true Height,
viz. of the upper Barometer.
N. B. The 3d and last Stage includes two Steps only, viz, 11th and
12th.
376. 11th Step. The detached Air-Thermometer _above_ was — — 39½
Degrees.
The detached Air-Thermometer _below_ was — — 45
1st. Add them, for the whole
Heat. — — — 2)84½ Degrees.
2d. For _mean Temperature_ of the
Air-Thermometers, or a _Moiety_ of
the Heat, divide by 2. — 42¼
3d. Deduct the Standard-Temperature
of — — — 31¼
from either Moiety, and the Remainder ———
— — — 11
is the 11 Degrees of Heat, more than the Standard[123]
for each Barometer.
For 42°¼, and 42°¼, equal to 84°½, was the whole Height of the Air at
both Places of Observation in the upper and lower Stations; of which
whole Height the detached or Air-Thermometer _above_ received 39°½, and
the detached or Air-Thermometer _below_, received 45°.
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