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Sounding the Ocean of Air
Being Six Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Institute of Boston, in December 1898

Sounding the Ocean of Air Being Six Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Institute of Boston, in December 1898

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THE ROMANCE OF SCIENCE.





SOUNDING
THE OCEAN OF AIR


BEING SIX LECTURES

DELIVERED BEFORE THE LOWELL INSTITUTE OF BOSTON
IN DECEMBER 1898


BY
A. LAWRENCE ROTCH, S.B., A.M.,
DIRECTOR OF THE BLUE HILL METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY,
MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., AND MEMBER
OF THE INTERNATIONAL CLOUD AND AERONAUTICAL COMMITTEES.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE GENERAL
LITERATURE COMMITTEE.



LONDON:
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C.; 43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C.

Brighton: 129, North Street.

New York: E. & J. B. YOUNG & CO.

1900

 

 

This little Book is gratefully Dedicated


TO

The late AUGUSTUS LOWELL, Esq.

OF

BOSTON, U.S.A.

WHO, AS TRUSTEE OF THE LOWELL INSTITUTE,
ENABLED SCIENTIFIC MEN OF TWO CONTINENTS TO
PRESENT THE RESULTS OF THEIR INVESTIGATIONS
TO THE PUBLIC

 

 

CORRIGENDA

Page 50, line 11, for "isolation" read "insolation."

Page 59, line 21, before "direction" insert "opposite."

Page 112, line 2; page 115, lines 2 and 15, and Index, pages 175 and 183, for "Viollé" read "Violle."

Page 112, line 23; page 113, line 6, and Index, page 181, for "Muntz" read "Müntz."

Page 123, last line, for "1889" read "1891."

Index, page 177, for "Cotte (T.)" read "Cotte (L.)."

Index, page 179, after "Hann (J.), 36," add "173."

Index, page 179, for "Hellman (G.)" read "Hellmann (G.)."

Index, page 181, after "Langley (S. P.)" insert "28."

[Transcriber's Note: These corrections have been applied to the current version]

 

 


CONTENTS
CHAP.   PAGE
I.    THE ATMOSPHERE—ANCIENT AND MODERN KNOWLEDGE—METHODS OF INVESTIGATION 9
II.    CLOUDS—FORMATION AND CLASSIFICATION—MEASUREMENTS AT BLUE HILL—THE INTERNATIONAL OBSERVATIONS 38
III.    BALLOONS—NOTABLE ASCENTS AND RESULTS OBTAINED—CAPTIVE BALLOONS 68
IV.    BALLONS-SONDES FOR GREAT ALTITUDES—THE INTERNATIONAL ASCENTS 98
V.    KITES—HISTORY AND APPLICATION TO METEOROLOGICAL PURPOSES AT BLUE HILL AND ELSEWHERE 117
VI.    RESULTS OF THE KITE-FLIGHTS AT BLUE HILL—FUTURE WORK 145
  INDEX

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