Rudyard Kipling
English writer and poet (1865-1936)
American meteorologist and advocate of time zones (1838-1916)
Cleveland Abbewas an American meteorologist and advocate of time zones.
While director of the Cincinnati Observatory in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1871-1916, he developed a system of telegraphic weather reports, daily weather maps, and weather forecasts.
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Cleveland Abbewas an American meteorologist and advocate of time zones.
While director of the Cincinnati Observatory in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1871-1916, he developed a system of telegraphic weather reports, daily weather maps, and weather forecasts. In 1870, Congress established the U.S. Weather Bureau and inaugurated the use of daily weather forecasts. In recognition of his work, Abbe, who was often referred to as “Old Probability” for the reliability of his forecasts, was appointed the first head of the new service.
As a great man’s influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
American meteorologist and advocate of time zones (1838-1916)
It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
American meteorologist and advocate of time zones (1838-1916)
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
American meteorologist and advocate of time zones (1838-1916)
The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.
American meteorologist and advocate of time zones (1838-1916)
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
American meteorologist and advocate of time zones (1838-1916)
I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.
American meteorologist and advocate of time zones (1838-1916)