James Pollard Espy (or “The Storm King”) (May 9 1785 – January 24 1860) was a U.S. meteorologist who proposed burning forests on the west coast of the [...]
Read MoreIt is not surprising that European American settlers in the Great Plains, dependent on agriculture and plagued by drought, would develop an interest i [...]
Read More“The Rhyme of the Rain Machine” by F. W. Clarke Said Jeremy Jonathan Joseph Jones “The weather is far too dry, So I reckon I’ll have to stir my bones [...]
Read MoreRAIN TO ORDER. An Interview With Frank Melbourne, the Rain King. CINCINNATI, July 3. — An evening paper publishes the following interview held with Fr [...]
Read MoreUncle Sam’s Rain: Prosperity. Politician’s Rain: Office. Miser’s Rain: Money. Merchant’s Rain: Orders. Farmer’s Rain: Crops. Spinster’s Rain: Angels? [...]
Read MoreSHOWERED GLASS AND PLASTER. Rain-Making Tests Unpopular in Washington. Bombardment of the Sky Kept Up All Night. After a dry spell of many weeks, Wash [...]
Read MoreThe Steiger Vortex gun is a cone-shaped barrel, fabricated from sheet steel, designed as a rainmaking device. The gun was originally designed by Alber [...]
Read MoreThe indisputable fact is that Hatfield went into the hills nineteen times to bring on a rain, and nineteen times it rained when he promised. Last Dece [...]
Read MoreThe cereal manufacturer, C. W. Post of Texas, maintained belief in the concussion method. From 1911 to 1914, Post executed “rain battles” near Post Ci [...]
Read MoreDuring world war two, fog was dispersed with a secret weapon called Fido. This stood for either “Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operations” or “Fog, [...]
Read MoreVincent Schaefer (1906–1993) discovered the principle of cloud seeding in July 1946 through a series of serendipitous events. Following ideas generate [...]
Read MoreThe energy expended by a tropical hurricane is enough to drive all the machinery in the world for three or four years. Yet the Army, the Navy and Gene [...]
Read More"Darn Sky Riders: Jet Trails Dim Sun, Palm Springs Gripes" As you know our entire economy is dependent upon tourist trade, which is predicated on our [...]
Read MoreIn December 1949 Krick suggested cloud seeding without resorting to airborne devices; his proposal employed ground-based smoke generators dispersing v [...]
Read MoreRandomized experimentation in weather modification is like the weather itself: many people talk about it, but few actually do it. In the 17 years sinc [...]
Read MoreThis experiment was conducted in the central and southeast coast of hte United States to study primarily the effects of aerial seeding with dry ice an [...]
Read MoreThe Project Skyfire cloud-seeding generator is designed to produce silver iodide nuclei for experiments performed in devising techniques for lightning [...]
Read More"We dropped carbon black suspended in liquid, over a track a mile long and produced a solid line of clouds one mile long," Dr. Florence Van Straten to [...]
Read MoreThe National Hail Research Experiment (NHRE) is a scientific field program established to answer the question of whether or not man can modify hailsto [...]
Read More“to explore, develop and determine the feasibility of applying the technology of weather modification to meet the Nation’s increasing demand for clean [...]
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