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单词 aeroscope
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aeroscopen.

Brit. /ˈɛːrə(ʊ)skəʊp/, U.S. /ˈɛroʊˌskoʊp/, /ˈɛrəˌskoʊp/
Forms: see aero- comb. form and -scope comb. form.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: aero- comb. form, -scope comb. form.
Etymology: < aero- comb. form + -scope comb. form. Compare earlier aeroscopy n. Compare also aeroscopic n.In sense 2 after French aéroscope (F. A. Pouchet 1860, in Comptes rendus hebd. de l'Acad. des Sci. 50 749).
1. An instrument (perhaps notional or hypothetical) for measuring some aspect of the air. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1806 J. Leslie Dict. Synonymous Words 78/1 at Glass Weather glass, baroscope, barometer, aeroscope, manometer.
2. Any of various instruments for estimating the concentration of particles in the air by causing them to impinge on a surface to which they adhere.
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1860 tr. F. A. Pouchet in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 8 190 My aeroscope, as it may be termed, clearly demonstrates that abundance of germs..nowhere exists in the air.
1881 Science 25 Apr. 489/1 These instruments have been called aëroscopes by their inventor [sc. P. Miquel].
1913 Jrnl. Hygiene 13 17 H. Liefmann has constructed an aeroscope with which apparatus he endeavoured to find out how many pollen grains were inhaled with one breath.
1959 C. T. Ingold in W. B. Turrill Vistas Bot. 364 A few years later, catching spores on a greased slide exposed in an ‘aeroscope’, Cunningham (circa 1873) investigated the spores in the air in the grounds of an Indian jail.
2005 G. Rangaswami & D. J. Bagyaraj Agric. Microbiol. (ed. 2) iii. 38 The microorganisms from the air are collected by exposing wax-coated slides in aeroscopes.
3. A kind of hand-held motion picture camera driven by compressed air. Now historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > camera
kinetograph1891
kinetophonograph1894
cinematograph1896
animatograph1898
sound camera1904
cinecamera1908
cinema1908
aeroscope1913
TV camera1947
camcorder1982
headcam1991
1913 F. A. Talbot Pract. Cinematogr. 55 When this camera, known as the ‘aeroscope’.
1921 Times 28 Sept. 8/3 In photographing I would use, for preference, a machine-driven instrument such as the aeroscope, in order to get a uniform speed.
2000 S. Herbert Hist. Early Film I. p. xxii A photograph shows inventor Proszinski standing awkwardly in the back of an open horse carriage holding his ‘Automatic Camera’, presumably about to take a tracking shot. His popular Aeroscope was powered by compressed air, freeing both of the operator's hands to keep hold of it.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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