meteorograph
(ˈmiːtɪərəgrɑːf, -æ-)
[a. F. météorographe, f. Gr. µετεωρο- meteor + -γράϕος -graph.]
An apparatus for automatically recording several different kinds of meteorological phenomena at the same time.
| 1780 Monthly Rev. LXIII. 499 A piece of mechanism, which he [Magellan] calls a perpetual meteorograph. 1879 Smithsonian Rep. (1880) 519 A universal meteorograph, designed for detached observatories. 1900 Standard 21 July 3/1 A Richard meteorograph..by which traces of the barometric pressure, temperature, and humidity are continuously and automatically recorded on rotating papered cylinders. |