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
Like the anemometer, it’s been around ever since a not-very-accurate means of measuring relative humidity was built by—once again—Leonardo da Vinci.
From Time ● Aug. 4, 2015
In the painting he was standing next to a globe and holding an anemometer, a device for measuring wind speed.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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