Anemometer

Designed by Leon Battista Alberti somewhere in mid 15th century the Anemometer was a simple instrument made to measure wind speed. It had a rectangular metal plate attached to a horizontal axis with a hinge, so that in the wind metal plate lifted, giving an indication of relative wind speed that could be measured crudely on a curved scale bar below the plate.
The Anemometer designed by Leon Battista Alberti was used for around 200 years, until a British scientist, Robert Hooke reinvented it in 1664, placing the moving plate beneath the curved scale bar to ensure more accurate measurements.

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Scientific Innovations

Less would know that new insights into physics & chemistry encouraged technological innovations and helped to drive the Industrial Revolution, which first arrived in Great Britain towards the end of eighteenth century, initiated by the introduction of coke based iron smelting. Earlier for centuries iron had been smelted using charcoal, derived from wood. The appetite for iron in the seventeenth century had been so voracious that Britain was heavily deforested. Charcoal came as a rescue for whatever forests were remaining by then, it gradually replaced coke and was derived from coal rather than wood. 

As they say that need is the mother of invention, now steam engine was invented for the mining of coal as it pumped out flooded water from the coal mines.