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Meteorological instruments have been made for almost 400 years. In that time the complications introduced by increasing demands on the instrument maker have about kept pace with the ability of technology to cope with them. The elapsed time from original concept to finished instrument has not greatly changed.
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Badgley, F.I. (1970). Basic Considerations for Equipment Design. In: Teweles, S., Giraytys, J. (eds) Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation. Meteorological Monographs, vol 11. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-35-5_27
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