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12. Quoted in Meyer, Americans and Their Weather, 87.
13. Espy, Philosophy of Storms, 492.
14. Quoted in Harrington, “Weather Making,” 51–52.
15. Espy, Second Report on Meteorology, 14–19.
16. Quoted in Espy, Fourth Meteorological Report, 35–36.
17. Leslie, “Rain King,” 11.
18. Meyer, Americans and Their Weather, 89.
19. Hawthorne, “Hall of Fantasy,” 204.
20. Le Maout, Effets du canon, 13.
21. Quoted in Le Maout, Lettre à M. Tremblay, 5.
22. Le Maout, Effets du canon, 11.
23. Le Maout, Encore le canon, 13.
24. “Caius Marius,” in Plutarch’s Lives, 3:220.
25. Humphreys, Rain Making, 30.
26. Powers, “Rain-Making,” 52.
27. Stone, “Rain-Making by Concussion,” 52.
28. U.S. House of Representatives, Production of Rain by Artillery-Firing, 5.
29. Ruggles, “Method of Precipitating Rainfalls,” 1; “Novel Method of Precipitating
Rainfalls,” 342.
30. Ruggles, Memorial, 1.
31. Van Bibber, “Rain Not Produced,” 405.
32. “How About That Patent for Rain-Making?” Farm Implement News, october 22,
1891, clipping in NoAA Central Library.
33. Williams, “Bizarre & Unusual Will of Robert St. George Dyrenforth,” 12.
34. Dyrenforth, Report of the Agent, 8–10.
35. Farm Implement News, September 1891, n.p., clipping in NoAA Central Library.
36. Dyrenforth, Report of the Agent, 16–17.
37. Farm Implement News, September 1891, n.p.
38. Dyrenforth, Report of the Agent, 25.
39. Quoted in Hering, “Weather Control,” 181–182.
40. Dyrenforth, Report of the Agent, 32.
41. “Government Rainmaking,” 309–310.
42. Scientific American Supplement, october 17, 1891, 13160.
43. Clarke, “ode to Pluviculture,” 260.
44. Curtis, “Rain-Making in Texas,” 594.
45. Quoted in Scientific American Supplement, october 17, 1891, 13160.
46. Hering, “Weather Control,” 182.
47. Blake, “Can We Make It Rain?” 296–297.
48. Blake, “Rain Making,” 420.
49. Moore, “Famine,” 45–46.
50. “Another Rain Controller,” 113.
51. Harrington, “Weather Making,” 47.
52. Brown, “Tower and Dynamite Detonator.”

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