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Re: Current New Scientist Articles
From: Samuel L
Date: 2015 Mar 19, 16:17 -0700
From: Samuel L
Date: 2015 Mar 19, 16:17 -0700
In NS Gallery, the wind vane picture, I suggest the holes were reference marks for wind speed and that there was a bar that was connected to the black area on the top left of the vane. As the wind blew harder the bar would pivot and approach zero degrees. We had/have a similar device made in the 1960's.
On board a boat it wouldn't do much good for telling the time as the object was supposedly a wind vane.
Sam Lohengrin.
