NERDS GONE WILD

The first scientist to measure wind speed did it by judging hair movement. Fashion meets physics.

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Early wind measurement used instruments such as anemometers, with the first one attributed to Leon Battista Alberti in the 15th century. The Beaufort scale later used observed effects like movement of trees.

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