The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future / Peter Moore.
Title:
The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future / Peter Moore.
ISBN:
9780865478091
9780374536206
Personal Author:
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Physical Description:
xvi, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
The weather experiment -- Dawn -- Seeing. Writing in the air ; Nature caught in the very act ; Rain, wind, and the wondrous cold -- Morning -- Contesting. Detectives ; Trembling air, whirling winds ; Liquid lightning -- Midday -- Experimenting. Steady eyes, delicate skies ; Beginnings ; Dangerous paths -- Afternoon -- Believing. Dazzling bright ; Endings ; Truth telling -- Dusk -- West winds -- Stars in FitzRoy's meteorological galaxy.
Summary:
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; and Admiral Robert Fitzroy, master sailor, scientific pioneer, and founder of the UK's national weather service.
Genre:
OCLC Number:
ocn906171888
Availability:
Rosemount - Robert Trail~1
Eagan - Wescott~1
