Windsocks
Wind government is the opposite of the aim in which the windsock is pointing (note that breath directions are conventionally specified as being the compass particle from which the flutter originates; so a windsock pointing due north indicates a southerly wind). Windspeed is indicated by the windsock's angle relative to the mounting pole; in decumbent winds, the windsock droops; in high winds it flies horizontally.
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During the 18th century tailless bowed kites were still unknown Windsocks in Europe |
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| Flying flat arch- or pear-shaped kites with tails had become a leading pastime, mostly among children |
| The first recorded mathematical application of a kite took place in 1749 when Alexander Wilson of Scotland nearly new a kite train (two or enhanced kites flown from a common line) as a meteorologic device for measuring temperature variations at changed altitudes. |