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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
The object of the present series of experiments is to find the variation of the illuminating power of symmetrical groups of pin-hole burners with the distance of adjacent burners.
The burners were fitted so as to slide on a frame composed of two pieces of a metre-rod fastened together to form a cross, as shown in figs. 1 and 2. The stems of the burners were circular in section and cylindrical in bore, the external and internal diameters being 8 mm. and less than 1 mm. respectively. Their bases were bevelled in such a manner that the burners could be fixed so close as to touch each other; thus their centres could be placed at any distance from the centre of the cross from 4 mm. to 10 cm. The standard of illumination with which they were compared was a similar pin-hole burner.
page 47 note * In the case of four burners, the frame was of course placed slightly squint, so as to allow 3 and 4 to be visible separately at φ.
page 50 note * Taken during four different days. Pressure was not quite constant, but the observations were reduced to constant pressure by the pressure calibration curve.