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Title
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Charting the Ephemeral: The Evolution of Climate Knowledge
Description
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A collection of maps and charts illustrating techniques and methods for manually depicting weather data. The project explores the ways in which early meteorologists sought to understand their environments, how the technological advancements such as the invention of the barometer, telegraph, and RADAR impacted knowledge of world climate.
Creator
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Jose Rivera
Coverage
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US/World
Historical Map
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Engraver
John Chappelsmith
Type
individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital
Atlas sheet as part of ccompanying his article “Account of a Tornado near New Harmony, Ind., April 30, 1852, with a Map of the Track, &c.” in Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge (Washington, D.C.) 7 (1855)
Format notes
Engraving, 55x74cm
Collection
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Historic Maps Collection
URL or Unique Identifier
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/thematic-maps/quantitative/meteorology/chappelsmith-map.jpg
Date Published
1955
Date Depicted
1952
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Title
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Map of the Track of the Tornado of April 30th 1852
Description
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This map shows what is referred to as the first scientific study of a tornado’s path and the first conclusive proof that tornadoes are an inward, upward, and onward moving column of air. In his article, Chappelsmith notes that people living five miles north of the storm continued to plough their fields during the whole time. The tornado’s track was one mile wide and sped from New Harmony to Leavenworth in 1.5 hours, averaging sixty miles per hour and toppling trees at the rate of seven thousand per minute. Primarily based on his detailed examination of these prostrated trees left in the storm’s wake, he concludes that the “phenomena are incompatible with the rotary hypothesis. . . . I am inclined to believe in Professor Espy’s idea of an ascensional column . . .” [pp. 10–11].
Creator
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John Chappelsmith
Source
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Accompanying his article “Account of a Tornado near New Harmony, Ind., April 30, 1852, with a Map of the Track, &c.”
Publisher
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Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge (Washington, D.C.)
Date
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1852
Format
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Engraving,
Language
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English
Coverage
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From Golconda Illinois, to Wabash River across Indiana & the Ohio River to Georgetown Kentucky, U.S
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colorless
diagrams
Illinois
Ohio River
sketches
tornado
trees
weather map
wind pressure