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Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder

This historic device is responsible for measuring North America’s longest running weather record

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A 19th Century sunshine measuring device is still hard at work on a hill in Milton, Massachusetts, recording the amount of the sun’s rays reaching the Earth each day. Taken together, each day’s logs form the longest still-running weather data in North America.

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