Word: barograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...