anemometer

     

An anemometer is a evice for measuring wind speed, and is one instrument used in a weather station. The term is derived from the Greek word, anemos, meaning wind. The first anemometer was invented by Leon Battista Alberti.

Trivia about anemometer

  • The instrument most often used to measure surface wind speed
  • One type of this device measures wind speed by means of cups rotating horizontally
  • In 1934 the instrument that measured the strongest wind ever recorded was a revolving-cup type of this

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