Around 1450, an Italian polymath created a device to understand local wind force and weather patterns for designing safe buildings and gave the world its first mechanical anemometer: How did Leon Battista Alberti's invention worked?

Around 1450, Leon Battista Alberti created a device that helped turn wind observation into measurement . The Italian Renaissance humanist, architect, writer and mathematician used a movable plate to observe the effect of wind. The plate was placed in the path of the wind. When air pushed against it, the plate moved. The amount of movement showed the relative force of the wind. This device is recognised as the first known mechanical anemometer. Historical research describes Alberti's instrument as a swinging-plate anemometer in which a disk was attached to a vertical shaft and placed perpendicular to the wind.

Around 1450, Alberti introduced a new way to measure wind