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Beaufort, Sir Francis (1774-1857) Summary
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Irish admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, British admiral and hydrographer to the Royal Navy, was the first in 1805 to introduce and describe a scale of wind for estimating wind strengths without the use of instruments, a system based on subjective...
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Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, FRS, FRGS (7 May 1774 – 17 December 1857) was a hydrographer and officer in the British Royal Navy. Beaufort was the creator of the Beaufort scale for indicating wind...


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