An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
HELIOGRAPH
heliograph
(noun) an apparatus for sending telegraphic messages by using a mirror to turn the sun’s rays off and on
heliograph
(verb) signal by means of a mirror and the using the sun’s rays
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
heliograph (plural heliographs)
An apparatus for signalling by means of a moveable mirror which reflects flashes of sunlight.
A heliogram.
An instrument for measuring the intensity of sunlight.
A device for photographing the sun.
(obsolete) A photograph.
Verb
heliograph (third-person singular simple present heliographs, present participle heliographing, simple past and past participle heliographed)
(transitive) To send a message by heliograph.
(intransitive) To send a heliograph.
(transitive, dated) To photograph by sunlight.
Source: Wiktionary
He"li*o*graph, n. Etym: [Helio- + -graph.]
1. A picture taken by heliography; a photograph.
2. An instrument for taking photographs of the sun.
3. An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays. See Heliotrope, 3.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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