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BY the death of Mr. William Henry Dines, meteorology loses an outstanding figure. It is scarcely possible to overrate the importance of his work. He was a meteorologist of the first rank before he began the upper air work for which he is best remembered. Born in 1855, he was the son of George Dines, himself a meteorologist of note. He was educated at Woodcote House School, served an apprenticeship as a railway engineer, and then went to Christ's College, Cambridge; he obtained first class honours in the Mathematical Tripos, and took his B.A. degree in 1881. The bent of his first meteorological work was occasioned by the disaster to the Tay Bridge, which, only recently opened, was destroyed by a gale while a train was crossing it. So George Dines investigated wind pressure and his son helped him. Later, as a result of this work, W. H. Dines designed the pressure tube anemometer. This instrument in its final form records each gust of wind and each transient change of direction, and is the standard recording anemometer for all serious purposes.
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CAVE, C. Mr. W. H. Dines, F.R.S. Nature 121, 65–66 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121065a0
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