Snowflake bently t biography

During the next two years young Bentley spent many a winter's day in a cold room at the rear of the farmhouse, peering through the microscope at ice crystals collected from the passing storms. Very few.

Snowflake gallery

He captured more than 5, images of crystals in his lifetime. A snowflake is usually composed of many ice crystals that collide and stick together as they fall. And Bentley did his share of the work. He learned how to work rapidly before the ice crystal changed shape, how to use transmitted light by pointing the camera to the sky, and how to get sharpness of detail on the crystal by using a large f-stop.

During the summer months Bentley's curiosity was directed to the problem of the origin of rain. I never went to school until I was fourteen years old. But winter was fast approaching and he had little time to admire the book. By dropping drops of known size from the end of broom splints into the flour he found that the diameter of the dough pellet was about equal to that of the drop.

Guy who photographed snowflakes

A couple of years ago, I wrote an article on Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, the Jericho, Vermont man who proved years ago that "no two snowflakes are alike". She had been a school-teacher before she married my father, and she instilled in me her love of knowledge and of the finer things of life. The creative person cannot work forever in a vacuum; he must communicate and interact with his peers.

This concept caught the public imagination and he published other articles in magazines, including National Geographic , Nature , Popular Science , and Scientific American. He was the first American to record raindrop sizes, and was one of the first cloud physicists. On Monday, the 7th of December, , he finished his entry, "Cold north wind afternoon.

Bentley was there, too. In the winter he kept warm in a large, dark overcoat and a soft felt hat that was clamped tightly to his head with a long scarf that came down over his ears and was tied beneath his chin. During the ten years that Bentley's creative efforts were at their maximum not one article by others about his work appeared in the Monthly Weather Review.

He died of pneumonia , which he may have contracted while walking home in the snow, at his farm on December 23, Shortly before the dance was over a number of the boys sneaked outside to where Bentley's horse and buggy were waiting, and reversed the large rear wheels with the smaller front wheels. So I announced that I would give a talk in the village and show lantern slides of my pictures.

When the pellets were dry he measured them and so found the size of the original raindrop. This was the same camera with which he had taken his first photomicrograph 46 years before. Jericho, Vermont , United States. And then, during a snowstorm on 15 January , he obtained the first photomicrographs ever taken of an ice crystal:.

He also predicted weather "by the size of the snowflakes. For one reason or another the work went slowly but, finally, in the summer of the material was handed in to the publisher.