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7. Balsillie, “Process and Apparatus for Causing Precipitation.”
8. Bancroft to Warren, August 23, 1920, Bancroft Papers.
9. Warren to Bancroft, May 21, 1921, Bancroft Papers.
10. Chaffee, “Second Report on Dust Charging.”
11. Warren to Bancroft, September 19, 1921, Bancroft Papers.
12. “Fliers Bring Rain with Electric Sand,” New York Times, February 12, 1923, 3.
13. “Wright Sees Sand Rip Clouds Away,” New York Times, February 18, 1923, E1.
14. Smith, “Dr. Warren—Rain Maker.”
15. Warren to Bancroft, July 11, 1922, Bancroft Papers.
16. Talman, “Can We Control the Weather?”
17. “Rain-making Not Feasible Says U.S. Weather Bureau,” U.S. Department of Agricul-
ture press release, March 21, 1923, New York Tribune and New York Times, clippings
in Bancroft Papers.
18. Ibid.
19. Cornell Daily Sun, March 24, 1923, clipping in Bancroft Papers.
20. McFadden, “Is Rainmaking Riddle Solved?” 30.
21. Warren, Facts and Plans, 26.
22. “Miracle.”
23. Warren, Facts and Plans, 7.
24. “Dispersal of Clouds Here Accomplished,” Hartford Courant, June 19, 1926, 1; “The
Rainmaker Comes to Town,” Hartford Courant, June 20, 1926, D1; “Rainmaker Suc-
cessful for 2d Time,” Hartford Courant, August 25, 1926, 1.
25. Warren to Bancroft, telegram, June 18, 1926, Bancroft Papers.
26. “Rainmaker’s Work in City Is Completed,” Hartford Courant, october 22, 1926, 1.
27. Warren, Facts and Plans, 17.
28. Warren to Bancroft, April 7, 1927, May 4, 1928, and February 21, 1929, Bancroft
Papers.
29. Servos, “Wilder D. Bancroft,” 4. Spence calls this episode “scientific,” but it was not
(Rainmakers, 103–115).
30. Quoted in Houghton and Radford, “on the Local Dissipation,” 5.
31. Bergeron, “on the Physics”; Bergeron, “Some Autobiographic Notes.”
32. Houghton and Radford, “on the Local Dissipation,” 13–26.
33. Houghton Papers.
34. “Fog Broom,” n.p.
35. Bowles and Houghton, “Method for the Local Dissipation,” 48–51; “Controlled
Weather,” 205; Wylie, M.I.T. in Perspective, 80–81.
36. Houghton to N. McL. Sage, July 18, 1940, office of the President, Institute Archives,
MIT.
37. Houghton and Radford, “on the Local Dissipation,” 6.
38. Quoted in Fleming, Callendar Effect, 51.
39. Humphreys, Rain Making; Brunt, “Artificial Dissipation”; ogden, “Fog Dispersal.”
40. “FIDo Conference Program”; Banks, Flame over Britain.
41. Records of the Petroleum Warfare Department, British National Archives; Banks,
Flame over Britain.

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