ASK THE GLOBE

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: January 23, 1990 | Copyright information

Q. Which hurricane registered the highest recorded wind speed? D.O., West Medford

A. Instruments capable of measuring wind speed date to at least 1644 when Robert Hooke, an English mathematician and astronomer, devised a pendulum-type wind gauge. The rotating cup-type anemometer in common use today is based on one developed by Irish astronomer Thomas Robinson in 1846. Such instruments, however, were not always accurate, nor had mankind developed a system of maintaining records as ...

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