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What is a bolometer?

What is a bolometer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (physics) A sensitive device for detecting and measuring the energy of electromagnetic radiation.
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Langley's bolometer, invented in 1878, actually had the capability to detect a cow's radiation from 400 meters away.
They may be investigated with the bolometer, an instrument invented by the late Professor Langley.
We have a heat-measuring instrument, the bolometer, which makes the best thermometer seem Early Victorian.
A more careful study has been made by Langley and Very with the bolometer.
Berlin Technologies, for example, was showcasing its Second Sight MS standoff real-time infrared bolometer gas cloud detector.
A team from LERMA, reinforced by visitors from Caltech and JPL, has performed the delicate tuning of the bolometer of the High Frequency Instrument.

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