A thermopile is a unit that is mounted so that it is in the pilot light flame. From Wordnik.com. [Radiant heating] Reference
The thermopile is made of two dissimilar metals. From Wordnik.com. [Radiant heating] Reference
So far as I know, this is the first application of the thermopile to variables. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882] Reference
Dr.G. G.re, F.R.S., has invented an improved thermopile for measuring small electromotive forces. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.] Reference
Indeed, the thermopile in the hands of Lockyer has already made palpable the heat of the fixed stars. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
That indicates to me that the unit probably has a thermopile generator on it to power the thermostat. From Wordnik.com. [Radiant heating] Reference
This may be proved experimentally with proper apparatus, as for example with an instrument known as the thermopile. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
Thus that inscrutable mode of force heat traverses the depths of space, reaches the earth, and turns the delicate balance of the thermopile. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
It powers itself with a "micro thermopile" that turns heat from your hand into stored electricity that runs its internal clock and the heater. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: September 17, 2006 - September 23, 2006 Archives] Reference
The third or thermopile method is favored by the authors, who prefer a circuit of platinum and an alloy of platinum with ten per cent. of rhodium. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
Tom had installed his invention on top of the great plane and also a highly sensitive thermopile to record any effect of solar radiation on the liquid oxygen. From Wordnik.com. [I, TOO, DREAM....] Reference
By means of an instrument known as the thermo-electric pile, or thermopile, the various heating power of the whole spectrum, visible and invisible, can be determined. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
If the eye should take the place of the thermopile it would be found that some of these rays did not affect it at all, while some would produce the sensation of light. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
On the top of the mountain, at an elevation of ten thousand feet, he found that the moon's rays affected his thermopile to the same extent as a standard candle ten feet away. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884] Reference
We have no time or space here to describe Professor Langley's "bolometer;" it must suffice to say that it seems to stand to the thermopile much as that does to the thermometer. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884] Reference
In detecting the changes of variables, I have attempted to substitute, in place of the ordinary eye observations, a very delicate thermopile, which registers the changes in the star's heat. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882] Reference
An ordinary lamp, with circular wick, and short glass cylinder, was wholly screened with a board, and a thermopile was so placed that its axis lay somewhat higher than the edge of the board. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
Lord Rosse, who used a thermopile in his experiments, found that in order to produce the results he obtained, the sunlit surface of the moon must be heated to a temperature of 500 degrees on Fahrenheit's scale. From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
You aren't a nuclear thermopile so cannot be creating it from nothing. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
It uses infrared (thermopile) sensors for stabilization and GPS for navigation. From Wordnik.com. [MAKE Magazine] Reference
Gradually the light faded, as the thermopile adjusted itself to the change in temperature. From Wordnik.com. [The Dream Doctor] Reference
These thermocouples are connected electrically forming an array of multiple thermocouples (thermopile). From Wordnik.com. [Fast Company] Reference
The original product offering included optical and thermopile sensors that enabled laser power measurement up to the tens of watts range. From Wordnik.com. [Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox] Reference
Here I have the mechanism, operated by the feeble current from the thermopile, opening and closing switches, and actuating bells and lights. From Wordnik.com. [The Dream Doctor] Reference
We call those junctions in a thermopile 'couples,' and by getting the recording instruments sensitive enough, we can measure one one-thousandth of a degree. From Wordnik.com. [The Dream Doctor] Reference
It has also been proposed by others to water-jacket the electrode chamber, and also to keep it cool by placing it in close proximity to the relatively cool joints of a thermopile. From Wordnik.com. [Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.] Reference
You're mighty busy yourself on that panfrequency thermopile for measuring solar radiation. ". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift Jr And His Jetmarine]
"You see, down there I placed the couples of the thermopile beneath the electric furnace on the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Dream Doctor] Reference
"And what is a thermopile?"'queried Carton. From Wordnik.com. [The Dream Doctor] Reference
(thermopile). From Wordnik.com. ["MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader] Reference
"Brand my thermopile!. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift Jr And His Atomic Earth Blaster]
This is a thermopile. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Dream Doctor] Reference
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