The amount of this pressure is measured by a wind-gauge or anemometer invented by Christian Förmer about 1677. ❋ George Laing Miller (N/A)
The north wall of their house is plastered with thermometers; in the garden there are a rain-gauge, a sun-gauge and a wind-gauge; and the front hall contains a wealth of instruments to poke, tap and peer at, including one of those Heath Robinson contraptions which live in a glass case and make little tremulous lines with ink. ❋ Unknown (1938)
"That's better," he declared, and straightway set to work to carefully blacken the foresight of his rifle, adjust the wind-gauge (for the first of a steady cross-wind had sprung up) and set the sights to six hundreds yards. ❋ Ernest [Illustrator] Prater (1917)
See, "he turned the light on to the wind-gauge -- it showed a pressure of sixty miles an hour," it is ❋ John Henry Goldfrap (1898)
There he stood motionless, his hands on the steel circle that directed the vast wings, his eyes on the wind-gauge that revealed to him as on the face of a clock both the force and the direction of the high gusts; now and again his hands moved slightly, and the huge fans responded, now lifting, now lowering. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)
The Dutch, who had the wind-gauge, found the hostile squadrons separated from one another. ❋ George Edmundson (1889)
As he turned to re-enter the tent after reading the wind-gauge he noted that ❋ Frank Norris (1886)
Bennett taking soundings and reading the wind-gauge, and one, the last view of the Freja, taken just as the ship -- her ice-sheathed dripping bows heaved high in the air, the flag still at the peak -- sank from sight. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)
It had a front sight, known as the wind-gauge, with the spirit-level, and with the vernier sight on the stock, which is raised from its flat position when the hunter wishes to shoot a long distance, and is graduated up to a thousand yards, carrying a 44 cartridge. ❋ Edward Sylvester Ellis (1878)
He turned the weapon over and over in his hand, looked down the barrel, tried the hammer and trigger, carefully examined the wind-gauge and vernier rear-sights, but could not see that anything was out of order. ❋ Edward Sylvester Ellis (1878)
No wind-gauge will help us to the science of its storms, no lead - line sound for us the depth of its divine and terrible serenity. ❋ Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873)
It is no accident that the councillors who made the most noise about Toronto Hydro's little wind-gauge platform hail from Scarborough, where the lobby is fiercest. ❋ Marcus Gee (2011)
