HOW TO SEE WIND.
Choose a windy day, whether hot or cold, clear or cloudy—but not when there is rain or the air murky; in other words let the atmosphere be dry and clear. . Now take a polished metallic surface of two feet or. more with a straight edge-a large hand-Baw will answer the purpose very well, Hold it at right ancles to the direction of the wind—i,e„ If the wind be north, hold your surface east and westinclinino it about forty-five degrees to the horizon, bo that the wind striking against it may flow over the edge. Now sight carefully over the edge at some minute and sharply-defined object, and you will see the air flow over as water flows over a dam. The result is even ■better when the sun is obsoured,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2096, 16 September 1885, Page 2
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134HOW TO SEE WIND. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2096, 16 September 1885, Page 2
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