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I VENTURE to call attention to a simple and effective way of demonstrating the linear expansion of solids when heated, first suggested, I believe, by M. Kapoustine (Journal de Physique, December 1883, p. 576). It answers at least as well as the system of levers known as “Ferguson's pyrometer,” which is usually employed for the purpose, while the cost of the apparatus is almost nothing, and any one can make it in ten minutes.
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MADAN, H. A Lecture Experiment on the Expansion of Solids by Heat . Nature 35, 89 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/035089a0
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