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
Anders Hove (actor) Kin Shriner. Missing his family and happy about what was going with the character of Faison, Hove stayed for a little under a year. He then moved back to Denmark. Anders Hove (actor) Anders Hove (born 16 January 1956) is an actor and director from Greenland. Hove is best known for his role of the vampire Radu Vladislas in the four "Subspecies"-movies, Cesar Faison in ABC's "General Hospital", "Loving", & "Port Charles" and in the film "In the Middle of the Night" as Nalle. Anders Hove was born in Greenland on 16 January 1956 to Birthe Hovea, a nurse, and