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Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:11:51 +0000
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Hi Scott  and the list,

   It seems that Professor Olmstead was an emminent Scientist, although his theory on telegraph lines and lightning has not been born out he appears to be the first to associate periodic meteor showers and comets.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/bios/pn0001301_bio.html


"He published many scientific papers, including those on the thermometric observations made by Dr. Joseph Caldwell in 1820-22, his thoughts on the causes of hailstorms (1830), and the behavior of lightning (1850). By his detailed observations of the famous meteor shower of 13 Nov. 1833, he established the periodicity of such falls and their origin by matter from outside the earth's atmosphere revolving around the sun, perhaps derived from comets. "

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73 Warren K2ORS/WD2XGJ/WD2XSH/23
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From: Scott Tilley <sthed475@telus.net>
> While reading the morning paper, Canada's 'Globe and Mail' I found this 
> interesting little quip:
> 
> "On this date in 1847, The Globe reported: 'The various wires of 
> telegraph beginning to intersect so many sections of our country are 
> said to have a decided effect upon electricity. That eminent scientific 
> man, Prof. Olmstead of Yale College, states, that as the storm comes up 
> and especially when over the wires, say 50 or 100 miles distant, the 
> lightning is attracted by the wires... 'It is my opinion,' he says, 
> 'that we shall never have very heavy thundershowers or hear of lightning 
> striking, so long as we have telegraph wires spread over the Earth.' ' "
> 
> Source: Glode and Mail, Monday, November 6, 2006
> 
> If this where only true! Or, perhaps the demise of the telegraph and the 
> rise of radio did us all in and doomed us to thunderstorm static forever ;-)
> 
> 73 Scott
> 
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