The water content of moist air can be measured with no less than six different metrics: Wet Bulb Temperature, Relative Humidity, Absolute Humidity, Degree of Saturation, Humidity Ratio (also known as Mixing Ratio), and Specific Humidity.
You can use a sextant to determine the position (called the âshootâ) in the sky of the sun, moon, or other celestial body, as well as your longitude. Although its design looks complicated, with an understanding of how it works and practice, you can reliably use it to find your position. Ad.
For thousands of years, devices have been used to measure and keep track of time. The current sexagesimal system of time measurement dates to approximately 2000 BC, in Sumer.The Ancient Egyptians divided the day into two 12-hour periods, and used large obelisks to track the movement of the Sun.he invention of the mainspring in the early 15th century allowed portable clocks to be built, evolving into the first pocketwatches by the 17th century, but these were not very accurate until the balance spring was added to the balance wheel in the mid 17th century.