Meteorological instrumentation rain gauge. In 1714, Gabriel Fahrenheit creates a reliable scale for measuring temperature with a mercury-type thermometer. In 1742, Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, proposed the 'centigrade' temperature scale, the predecessor of the current Celsius scale. In 1783, the first hair hygrometer is demonstrated by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. In 1806, Francis Beaufort introduced his system for classifying wind speeds. The April 1960 launch of the first successful weather satellite, TIROS-1, marked the beginning of the age where weather information became available globally. This was also used to measure the temperature of the surrounding air. A thermometer measures air temperature, or
Nives Celsius Nives Celsius Nives Zeljković (; born 18 December 1981), known by her stage name Nives Celzijus (Nives Celsius), is a Croatian model, singer, writer and most recently a TV actress. She is a current columnist for German "Bild" magazine and the ex-wife of the football player Dino Drpić. Nives was born in Zagreb, at the time part of Yugoslavia. Her biological, estranged, father Spaso Čanković (known as Anej Sam) was born in Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina and works as a writer in Slovenia. Her mother is named Mira. Her parents separated prior to her birth. During the Croatian War,