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He invented the cyanometer for estimating the blueness of the sky, [10] [11] the diaphanometer for judging the clarity of the atmosphere, the anemometer and the mountain eudiometer. [ 6 ] Of particular importance was a hair hygrometer that he devised and used for a series of investigations on atmospheric humidity, evaporation, clouds, fogs and ...
LiveLeak, a UK-based video sharing website that lets users post and share videos (often of reality footage, politics, war, and other world events), is founded. 2006 December Companies Youku, one of China's top online video and streaming service platforms, is founded. [24] 2007 January 15 Products Netflix announces that it will launch streaming ...
On January 12, 2007, NBCUniversal announced its intent to launch Chiller on March 1, dedicated to films and television shows related to the horror genre. The company also stated that, aside from their own content, Chiller would feature content from competing film studios, including Lionsgate, Sony, Warner Bros., and 20th Century Fox. [6]
A hygrometer measures the relative humidity at a location, which can then be used to compute the dew point. Radiosondes directly measure most of these quantities, except for wind, which is determined by tracking the radiosonde signal with an antenna or theodolite .
A hygrometer is an instrument which measures the humidity of air or some other gas: that is, how much of it is water vapor. [1] Humidity measurement instruments usually rely on measurements of some other quantities, such as temperature, pressure, mass, and mechanical or electrical changes in a substance as moisture is absorbed.
Tubi was founded by Farhad Massoudi and Thomas Ahn Hicks [8] of AdRise in San Francisco, launching in 2014 as a free service under the name Tubi TV. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In May 2017, they raised US$20 million in a round of funding from Jump Capital, Danhua Capital , Cota Capital, and Foundation Capital . [ 12 ]
Pluto TV first launched its beta website on March 31, 2014, and was co-founded by chairman and CEO Nick Grouf, Tom Ryan, and Ilya Pozin. [10] [11] Pluto TV was originally developed to provide curated channels of existing online content, offering a slate of nearly 100 categorized channels featuring content aggregated from various video-sharing platforms (including YouTube, Vimeo, and ...
TelePrompTer Corporation was an American media company that existed from approximately 1950 until 1981. The company was named for its eponymous primary product, a display device invented by Hubert Schlafly which scrolls text to people on video or giving speeches, replacing cue cards or scripts.