anemometer
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It may also have prompted the third director of the observatory - Romney Robinson - to develop a device for accurately measuring wind speed - the four cup anemometer.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025
A weather station with a spinning anemometer sits atop the shack.
From Washington Times • Nov. 19, 2018
El Faro didn’t even have a working anemometer, a wind-speed gauge.
From New York Times • May 1, 2018
And while other competing anemometer designs existed, involving liquids and tubes, the four-cup design became standard in American mete- orology in the nineteenth century, remaining remarkably stable.
From Time • Aug. 4, 2015
She asked for a barometer and an anemometer and a rain gauge for Christmas, and hung them outside her bedroom window.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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Weather and Climate - Middle School
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