variometer

flight instrument in an aircraft used to inform the pilot of the rate of descent or climb
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variometer

Summary

variometer ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (65 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • variometer is credited with the discovery of Alexander Lippisch[2].
  • variometer is credited with the discovery of Robert Kronfeld[3].
  • variometer's image is recorded as Variomètre.jpg[4].
  • variometer's image is recorded as Balloninstrument.jpg[5].
  • variometer's subclass of is recorded as flight monitoring device[6].
  • variometer's Commons category is recorded as Variometers[7].
  • variometer's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 67122[8].
  • variometer's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1929-00-00T00:00:00Z[9].
  • variometer's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01c6bj[10].
  • variometer's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0216843[11].
  • variometer's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/variometer[12].
  • variometer's different from is recorded as gravity variometer[13].
  • variometer's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1900633[14].
  • variometer's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["MeasurementDevice", "Variometer"][15].
  • variometer's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 115206981[16].
  • variometer's Lex ID is recorded as variometer[17].
  • variometer's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 04529158-n[18].

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Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Alexander Lippisch[2], a military flight engineer[19], 1894–1976[20], of Germany[21], awarded the Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille[22], specialised in aircraft industry[23] and Robert Kronfeld[3], a military flight engineer[24], 1904–1948[25], of United Kingdom[26], awarded the Air Force Cross[27].

Why It Matters

variometer ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (65 views/month).[1] variometer has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] variometer is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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