Erygmascope
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erygmascope-275-2494580
title:
Erygmascope
text:
An erygmascope is a late 19th-century electric lighting apparatus designed for the examination of the strata of earth traversed by boring apparatus. It consisted of a very powerful incandescent lamp enclosed in a metallic cylinder. One of the two semi-cylindrical sides constitutes the reflector, and the other, which is of thick glass, allows the passage of light, which illuminates the strata of earth traversed by the instrument. The base, which is inclined at an angle of 45°, is an elliptical mi
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Precursor of modern optical borehole imager for geological mapping and breakouts localization
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erygmascope
date created:
date modified:
2024-01-27T03:00:39Z
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