An actinograph is an instrument for measuring or estimating the amount of light available, in terms of its ability to expose
photographic film. That is, it measures the actinic or chemical intensity of light, as opposed to
radiometric or
photometric amount of light.The earliest actinographs were 24-hour recording devices, using a rotating cylinder of photographic paper exposed through a wedged-shaped slit to record a graph of actinic light during the period of a day; hence the graph suffix in actinograph. Such devices were developed and described by
Robert Hunt, secretrary of the
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society in 1845, as an improvement on T. B. Jordan's 1839 Heliograph.
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