wind-gauge

The amount of this pressure is measured by a wind-gauge or anemometer invented by Christian Förmer about 1677.

The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller

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.

Try Anything Twice 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.

Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force 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

The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest 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.

Lord of the World Robert Hugh Benson 1892

The Dutch, who had the wind-gauge, found the hostile squadrons separated from one another.

History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

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.

A Man's Woman Frank Norris 1886

As he turned to re-enter the tent after reading the wind-gauge he noted that

A Man's Woman 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.

Through Forest and Fire Wild-Woods Series No. 1 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.

Through Forest and Fire Wild-Woods Series No. 1 Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878