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Photoelectric Recording of Daylight

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IN a letter in NATURE of Mar. 1, 1930, Dr. W. R. G. Atkins and Dr. H. H. Poole describe an apparatus for the photoelectric recording of daylight. A photoelectric daylight recorder has been in existence at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, for two years and has been utilised there since April 1929 for almost continuous recording, and a few further remarks upon this subject may therefore be of interest.

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HARRISON, T. Photoelectric Recording of Daylight. Nature 125, 704–705 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125704c0

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