Definition Of Hair Hygrometer

Created and implemented by horace bénédict de saussure 1740 1779 a swiss physicist.
Definition of hair hygrometer. Saussure s hygrometer an obsolete meteorological device that determined changes in atmospheric humidity by measuring the differences in the length of human hair. These devices use a human or animal hair under some tension. Hair hygrometer definition is an absorption hygrometer with a sensitive element of human hair. A hygrometer actuated by the changes in length of a strand of human hair brought about by.
In the late. Deluc s hair tension whalebone hygrometer. Its length changes with humidity and the length change may be magnified by a mechanism and indicated on a dial or scale.