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Man Who Planned the U.S. Weather Service

Record #:
2518
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Abstract:
Captain William H. Boudinot of Chatham County, an 1837 U.S. Naval Academy graduate, devised in 1856 a way to gather weather information for forecasting. Ignored for years, his ideas eventually laid the foundation for the weather service.
Source:
The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 55 Issue 3, Aug 1987, p12, il