Sentences with phrase «bimetallic strips»
Through a slit in the cavern ceiling, rays of the noon sun will focus onto a bimetallic strip, triggering a weight to resynchronize the clock in case its time has drifted.
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The bimetallic strip would then cool down and reconnect the power.
I had a bimetallic strip thermometer directly in the sun that went from 76 F to 70 F during the initial course of the eclipse in southeastern Washington State.