Miscellaneous Devices. Amongst these may be mentioned: (i) Fusion pyrometers, which consist of pieces of materials of progres- sive melting-points, which are placed in the furnace, the temperature of which is represented by the melting-point of the highest in the series that undergoes fusion (Seger cones, Sentinel and Watkin's pyrometers) ; (2) Calorimetric or Water pyrometers, in which a piece of hot metal taken from the furnace is dropped into a known quantity of water, and the temperature deduced from the extent to which the water is heated ; (3) Expansion pyrometers, based on the linear expansion of solids; and (4) the Clay-Contraction pyrometer of
Wedgwood. All these methods are at best approximate, and are not employed to the same extent as formerly, when accurate instruments were not available.
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