A 60ft high thermometer which has been added to the electric advertising signs overlooking the Thames and the Embankment in Loudon is a small thinpf compared with one which dominates Paris. That is the Eiffel Tower, which responds so immediately to changes of temperature, by variations in its length, as to enable the diurnal range of temperature to be registered by means of an appliance which automatically records its expansion and contraction. Passing clouds or shower's of rain affect the great mass of steel instantaneously, and when such variations ore platted on a chart they correspond exactly with the temperature curves of the official thermometer in the Central Meteorological Bureau a few hundred l yards away. Before going out in cold, wet weather, take “ NAZOL ” on sugar. This will keep coughs and colds away. Thousands (m*. “~v A '/r\T. ■■ JUuA J f > J—* A
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Evening Star, Issue 19063, 5 October 1925, Page 11
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144Page 11 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 19063, 5 October 1925, Page 11
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