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Sept. 16, 1736: One Degree of Separation — Fahrenheit Dies
The inventor of the mercury thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale gives up the heat.
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Lightning Reveals Its Power in Slow Motion
<< previous image | next image >> Tom Warner documents the powerful beauty of lightning with an array of optical and electromagnetic sensors. He often uses a Vision Research ‘Phantom’...
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Feb. 9, 1870: Feds Get on Top of the Weather
1870: President Ulysses S. Grant signs a bill creating what we now call the National Weather Service. Forecasting models were simple but generally effective. It had been obvious for centuries that...
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March 30, 1848: Niagara Falls Runs Dry
1848: Niagara Falls stops. No water flows over the great cataract for 30 or 40 hours. People freak out. The falls were already a tourist attraction by 1848, and villages had grown up on both the U.S....
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