The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future

In the 1800s, the major branches of science, including physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy, were advancing through experimentation and observation. However, weather forecasting remained in its infancy, with the laws governing the heavens unknown. This tells the story of a group of naturalists, engineers, and artists who conquered the elements, describing their travels, experiments, breakthroughs, and bankruptcies. It takes readers from Irish bogs to a thunderstorm in Guanabara Bay and the basket of a hydrogen balloon 8,500 feet over Paris.

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