Anemometer
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An
anemometer is a device for measuring
wind speed, and is one of the instruments found in a
weather station. The familiar
cup-anemometer was invented in
1846 by
John Thomas Romney Robinson.
Other types of anemometers include:
- hot wire or hot plate sensors, which measure the cooling of a heated element immersed in the wind
- ultrasonic sensors, which measure the Doppler shift of sound waves by the moving air.