00994cam0-22002891i-450-99000364793040332120160306230047.0000364793FED01000364793(Aleph)000364793FED0100036479320030910d1778----km-y0itay50------baengy-------001yy<<The >>history of America. By William Robertson, D.D. Principal of the University of Edinburgh ...The second editionLondonprinted for W. Strahan; T. Cadell, in the Strand; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh17782 v.4°Robertson,William<1721-1793>135450ITUNINARICAUNIMARCAQ990003647930403321SE 04.05.027-S.I.DECSESE 04.05.029-s.i.DECSEDECSEHistory of America. By William Robertson, D.D. Principal of the University of Edinburgh ..1497702UNINA01338oam 2200385 450 991071722370332120220325111501.0(CKB)5470000002529842(OCoLC)1305505905(EXLCZ)99547000000252984220220325d1993 ua 0engurbn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierApplication of ray tracing in radiation heat transfer /Joseph F. Baumeister[Washington, D.C.] :National Aeronautics and Space Administration,1993.1 online resource (50 pages) illustrationsNASA technical memorandum ;106206"Sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, August 16-20, 1993."Includes bibliographical references (page 50).HeatTransmissionHeat transmissionnasatHeatTransmission.Heat transmission.Baumeister Joseph F.1386880United States.National Aeronautics and Space Administration,GPOGPOGPOBOOK9910717223703321Application of ray tracing in radiation heat transfer3533296UNINA03483nam 22005535 450 991072726930332120230620202610.00-226-59792-X10.7208/9780226437378(CKB)3710000001118568(MiAaPQ)EBC4830504(StDuBDS)EDZ0001654062(DE-B1597)523668(OCoLC)980737015(DE-B1597)9780226437378(EXLCZ)99371000000111856820191022d2017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMake It Rain State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America /Kristine C. HarperChicago :University of Chicago Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (328 pages) illustrationsPreviously issued in print: 2017.Print version : 9780226437231 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --Part I. Weather Control: Scientific Fringe to Scientific Mainstream (1890- 1950) --Part II. Coming to Grips with Weather Control (1950- 1957) --Part III. Weather Control as State Tool (1957- 1980) --Conclusion: Weather Control and the American State --Abbreviations --Notes --IndexWeather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenomena, and biological behavior are being watched with interest by all, regardless of political or scientific persuasion. But between the late nineteenth century-when the United States first funded an attempt to "shock" rain out of clouds-and the late 1940s, rainmaking (as it had been known) became weather control. And then things got out of control. In Make It Rain, Kristine C. Harper tells the long and somewhat ludicrous history of state-funded attempts to manage, manipulate, and deploy the weather in America. Harper shows that governments from the federal to the local became helplessly captivated by the idea that weather control could promote agriculture, health, industrial output, and economic growth at home, or even be used as a military weapon and diplomatic tool abroad. Clear fog for landing aircraft? There's a project for that. Gentle rain for strawberries? Let's do it! Enhanced snowpacks for hydroelectric utilities? Check. The heyday of these weather control programs came during the Cold War, as the atmosphere came to be seen as something to be defended, weaponized, and manipulated. Yet Harper demonstrates that today there are clear implications for our attempts to solve the problems of climate change.Weather controlUnited StatesHistoryScience and stateUnited StatesHistoryCold War.control of nature.state funding.the state.water.weather control.Weather controlHistory.Science and stateHistory.551.680973Harper Kristine C.792164DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910727269303321Make it rain1771315UNINA