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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A history of weather forecasting and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible. -- Presents the contributions to the modern science of meteorology made by Luke Howard, the first to classify clouds; Sir Francis Beaufort, who quantified the winds; James Glaisher, who explored the upper atmosphere in a hot-air balloon; Samuel Morse, whose electric telegraph gave scientists the means by which to transmit weather warnings;...
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