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Weather Pioneers: The Signal Corps Station at Pike's Peak by Smith, Phyllis
by Smith, Phyllis | PB | LikeNew
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- ISBN
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- Book Title
- Weather Pioneers : the Signal Corps Station at Pike's Peak
- Item Length
- 9.8 in
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Nature, Science, History
- Topic
- Weather, Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, General
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 126 Pages
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At 14,110 feet, the weather station atop Pikes Peak, Colorado, was the highest in the world in 1873. Young men trained by the Signal Corps took turns living year-round on the isolated mountain, where they endured loneliness, primitive living conditions, lack of financial support and appreciation, and deteriorating health. Most did so with dedication and good humor. Some suffered frostbitten hands, feet and ears when they became lost on the snowy mountain trail; others were jolted by lightning strikes. One man eventually died; another, evidently unsuited to the solitary life, went mad. Although weather records had been kept by private individuals and some universities since the early 1800s both here and abroad, a full U.S. weather reporting service had to await development and expansion of the electric telegraph. Both farmers and coastal shippers pressed the U.S. Congress to establish a weather prediction facility. By 1870 a network of such stations was in place. By late summer of 1873, workmen had finished the crude two-room station at the top of Pikes Peak. A telegraph line snaked through brush, trees, and boulders to the lofty summit. When daily logs and research records were completed, some of the Pikes Peak weather men amused themselves by writing tall tales, expanding on their already unusual adventures. Americans loved their stories and seldom disavowed the truth of sea monsters in Pikes Peak lakes, plagues of mountain rats, and mysterious volcanic eruptions. Their problems with governmental bureaucracy were at once humorous and sad. With fortitude and imagination these early meteorologists laid the groundwork for today's sophisticated science of data-gathering satellites and computer models.
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Publisher
Ohio University Press
ISBN-10
0804009708
ISBN-13
9780804009706
eBay Product ID (ePID)
269548
Product Key Features
Book Title
Weather Pioneers : the Signal Corps Station at Pike's Peak
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Weather, Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, General
Publication Year
1993
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science, History
Number of Pages
126 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Qc875.U72p557 1993
Copyright Date
1993
Lccn
92-039291
Dewey Decimal
551.65788/56
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