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A Cheugugi at Jang Yeong-sil Science Garden in Busan. Cheugugi (Hangul: 측우기, Hanja: 測雨器) is the first well-known rain gauge invented and used during the Joseon dynasty of Korea. It was invented and supplied to each provincial offices during the King Sejong the Great's reign. As of 2010, only one example of the Cheugugi remains ...
Cheugugi. The Korean economy during the Joseon dynasty was agriculturally based and vulnerable to prolonged or consecutively occurring droughts; therefore, there was a need for better ways to manage water.
In 1441, the Cheugugi was invented during the reign of Sejong the Great of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea as the first standardized rain gauge. [8] [9] [10] In 1662, Christopher Wren created the first tipping-bucket rain gauge in Britain in collaboration with Robert Hooke. [8] Hooke also designed a manual gauge with a funnel that made measurements ...
This is a list of Korean inventions and discoveries; Koreans have made contributions to science and technology from ancient to modern times.In the contemporary era, South Korea plays an active role in the ongoing Digital Revolution, with one of the largest electronics industries and most innovative economies in the world.
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on de.wikipedia.org Wissenschaftsgarten Jang Yeong-sil; Usage on et.wikipedia.org Cheugugi; Usage on eu.wikipedia.org
In 1442, Jang Yeong-sil made one of the world's first standardized rain gauges named cheugugi (측우기; 測雨器). [44] This model has not survived, with the oldest existing Korean rain gauge being made in 1770, during the reign of King Yeongjo.
A Cheugugi at Jang Yeong-sil Science Garden in Busan. The earliest agricultural irrigation canal system known in the area of the present-day United States dates to between 1200 BCE and 800 BCE and was discovered by Desert Archaeology, Inc. in Marana, Arizona (adjacent to Tucson) in 2009. [79]
Seoul, the capital city of South Korea, has 228 years of precipitation records, starting with traditional cheugugi rain gauges which is the longest continual instrumental rainfall collection in the world. The record of daily precipitation provides a high-resolution dataset for detecting the singularity of extreme weather events and the multiple ...