The director of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory near Boston explains, in six Lowell Institute lectures, how scientists of the 1890s probed the upper air. He describes cloud observation, mountain stations, manned and unmanned balloons and the instrument-carrying kites pioneered at Blue Hill, and what they revealed about temperature and wind aloft.
A vivid snapshot of meteorology on the eve of the aeroplane, by one of its pioneers. Download the free EPUB.