Benjamin Biram

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Benjamin Biram (* 1804 ; † 1857 ) lived in South Yorkshire ( England ), where he invented the vane anemometer in 1842 .

Biram worked as a steward for the mine owner Earl Fitzwilliam. The anemometer was used there in the mines to measure the flow rate of the breathing air generated by artificial ventilation .

The Biram anemometer, as it was named after him, was first patented in 1842 and has been manufactured by John Davis from Derby since 1845. In the first version it was an open impeller, from 1862 the manufacturer Casartelli provided it with an outer tire to protect the wings and sold it to mines and mines.

Web links

  • Benjamin Biram , in: Grace's Guide to British Industrial History; Retrieved November 8, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mining Artifacts & History. English website on historical mining tools. In: http://miningartifacts.homestead.com/ . Retrieved August 3, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Historical anemometers. In: www.geag.de. Retrieved August 3, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Biram, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Inventor of the anemometer
DATE OF BIRTH 1804
DATE OF DEATH 1857