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Charles Greeley Abbot
astrophysicist and Secretary of the Smithsonian, with his device: a silver-disc pyrheliometer which measures direct beam solar irradiance
- Date
- 1913–1917
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- . The
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- Harris & Ewing
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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- 1,024 × 766 pixels
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