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Paper, 'Cloud photography conducted under the Meteorological Council at the Kew Observatory [London]' by Richard Strachey and G M [George Mathews] Whipple

Reference number: PP/17/35

Date: 1891

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The authors write: 'In 1878 the Meteorological Council decided upon undertaking a series of experiments with the view of attempting by means of photography to obtain a record of the height and velocity of the clouds, as indicating the movements of the upper parts of the atmosphere. For this purpose a plain cubical camera was constructed, with its optical axis directed to the zenith, and a number of pictures of clouds were thus obtained.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes one page of graphs relating to the authors' observations.

Subject: Meteorology

Received 23 April 1891. Read 30 April 1891.

A version of this paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Cloud photography conducted under the Meteorological Council at the Kew Observatory'.

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PP/17/35
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1891
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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22 pages
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Richard Strachey

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Richard Strachey, Paper, 'Cloud photography conducted under the Meteorological Council at the Kew Observatory [London]' by Richard Strachey and G M [George Mathews] Whipple, 1891, PP/17/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_17_35/paper-cloud-photography-conducted-under-the-meteorological-council-at-the-kew-observatory-london-by-richard-strachey-and-g-m-george-mathews-whipple, accessed on 13 January 2025

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