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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Inventors and Inventions: Scientific Instruments and Industrial Machines

ANEMOMETERThe anemometer is a device that measures the speed of the wind (or other airflow, like in a wind tunnel). The first anemometer, a disc placed perpendicular to the wind, was invented in 1450 by the Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti. Robert Hooke, an English physicist, later reinvented...