A hemispherical cup anemometer of the type invented in 1846 by John Thomas Romney Robinson Reverend John Thomas Romney Robinson FRS FRSE DD DCL LLD (23 April 1792 – 28 February 1882), usually referred to as Thomas Romney Robinson, was a 19th-century astronomer and physicist. He was the longtime director of the Armagh Astronomical Observatory, one of the chief astronomical observatories in the UK of its time. Wikipedia
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