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Weather Instruments. By keagan Regner. Barometer. Evangelista Toricelle is credited with inventing the barometer in 1643. Gasparo Berti built a water barometer between 1640 and 1643. It measures air pressure. Weather Vane.
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Weather Instruments By keaganRegner
Barometer • Evangelista Toricelle is credited with inventing the barometer in 1643. • GasparoBerti built a water barometer between 1640 and 1643. • It measures air pressure.
Weather Vane • On the Tower of the Winds on the ancient Roman agora in Athens there was a wind vane in about 50 BC. • The weather vane shows the direction of the wind.
Thermometer • In 1724 Daniel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer. • In 1742 Anders Celsius invented the Celsius thermometer. • A thermometer measures the temperature.
Anemometer • Dr. John Robinson invented the anemometer in 1846. It was a four cup design. • John Patterson developed the three cup version in 1926. • The anemometer measures wind velocity.
Rain Gauge • The first records of rainfalls were kept by the ancient Greeks about 500 BC. • The much later cheugugi of Korea was the world's first gauge, other sources say that Jang Yeong-sil developed or refined an existing gauge. • The rain gauge measures the amount of precipitation.