Word: barograph
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...moving upstairs while strolling slowly downward on a racing escalator. At 11,000 ft. the rain turned to hail that tore noisily at the wings. The airspeed indicator froze, and the rate-of-climb indicator stuck at 5 ft. per second. The needle of the glider's sealed barograph reached its limit at 27,000 ft. But the plane, bucking and pitching in the turbulent winds, kept on climbing...
Loaded with 80 pounds of gadgets for safety, science and publicity, he climbed into a Lockheed Lodestar one day last week and went upstairs-far above the 'chutists' attic. Bundled in a heavy leather suit, he carried two chutes, oxygen equipment, stop watches, an altimeter, a barograph (to record changes in altitude), a small radio transmitter, pneumograph (to record the action of his lungs...
Karl O. Lange, to construct the mechanical part of an air-pressure transmitting station and to maintain an automatic radio barograph station under the adverse weather conditions of Mt. Washington (6000 ft.) while recording in Boston...
Syria. Pilot Gromov and companions had covered a geographical distance o. 6,262 miles, not counting detours and backtracks. They were in the air for 62 hr. 17 min. A representative of the National Aeronautic Association shipped their sealed, clock-controlled barograph to Washington. A California fruit inspector fearful of Russian insect pests climbed into the plane, peeked and poked, confiscated a bag of fruit...
...turtle, Fleur de Lys, came through safely was Mrs. Piccard's first concern. Dr. Jean Piccard, brother of famed ecstatic Stratospherist Auguste Piccard, was tired and the rough landing hurt his foot. He curled up in a blanket and rested. Mrs. Piccard powdered her nose. The sealed barograph went to Washington. The cosmic ray recorders went to Dr. W. F. G. Swarm of Swarthmore's Bartol Research Foundation. A sack of mail went to stamp collectors...