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THE electric light promising to be of great intensity at a small cost, the thought occurred to me that it might be used with advantage for the purpose of ascertaining the height of clouds. For, supposing an electric lamp sending a beam of light to the clouds, the spot where the light meets the latter, will be more or less visible, and we are obviously able to determine trigono-metrically the height of the cloud.
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WILKE, J. “Measuring the Height of Clouds”. Nature 19, 148 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/019148c0
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