Gilbert Weather Bureau (Meteorology) for Boys
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Gilbert Weather Bureau (Meteorology) for Boys gives its author as Alfred C. Gilbert, Yale University, 1909. The text says a very silly notion prevails in the minds of most people about the weather and the weather man, namely a general impression that the weather knows no laws. The text says that as the fishes live at the bottom of the ocean of water, mankind lives at the bottom of an ocean of air. The text gives the weight of the air lying upon us as 14.7 pounds per square inch of surface.
The air-globe is described as a piece of apparatus for demonstrating that air has weight. The Gilbert weather vane consists of a metal arrow pointer and a metal rod eight inches long and five thirty-seconds of an inch in diameter. The text says the blizzard in Dakota of 1873 is one of the worst on record, but probably the most disastrous in the United States occurred in Montana, Dakota, and Texas on January 11, 1888, when the loss of life exceeded 100 persons.
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- Author
- A. C. Gilbert
- Pages
- 142
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Childrens Classics
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