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heliograph
- A 19th-century instrument used for mainly military signaling, comprising essentially a mirror and a shutter to cut off the sunlight reflected from it. A further mirror permitted messages to be sent even when the Sun was behind the sender. The signals could be interpreted up to 50km away.
- A device for recording the positions of sunspots.
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