Schaefer Performs Cloud Seeding by Using Dry Ice
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science
- Subcategories: Scientists, Earth Sciences, Chemistry, Chemists, Weather
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950
- Geographical Location: New York
- Date: July 12, 1946
Article abstract: Working alone in the General Electric Research Laboratory in New York, Schaefer created a miniature snowstorm inside his deep freezer by tossing a handful of dry ice inside, producing ice crystals.
Summary of Event
Beginning in 1943, an intense interest in the study of clouds grew and broadened into the practice of weather modification. Working for the General Electric Research Laboratory, Nobel laureate Irving Langmuir and his assistant researcher and technician, Vincent Joseph Schaefer, began their collaboration of discovery with the...
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