The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future /

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...

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Main Author:	Moore, Peter, 1983- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Edition:	First American edition.
Subjects:	Meteorologists > Biography. Climatologists > Biography. Meteorology > History > 19th century. Weather forecasting > History > 19th century. Climatologists. Meteorologists. Meteorology. Weather forecasting. Biographies. History.

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