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IN a note in NATURE of Nov. 12, p. 743, reference was made to the kata-thermometer as being considered too small for its purpose as an indicator of comfortable conditions in a room, and to the larger electrically controlled instrument, the eupatheo cope, described by Mr. A. F. Dufton, the surface of which is automatically kept at 75° C., a temperature corresponding to that of the clothed surface of the body in ordinary room conditions. This instrument was considered more suitable owing to its size.
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HILL, L. Room Comfort. Nature 130, 967 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130967b0
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