PSW 2395 Aeronautical Beginnings-Ballooning | James Green from pluto balloon Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 78 min 36 sec ✓ Published: 12-Sep-2018
Description: Lecture Starts at 18:10nnJoseph Henry was the first director of the Smithsonian Institution and the founder and first president of PSW. He was one of the most important American scientists of his time, and widely regarded as the most important since Ben Franklin. Henry was fascinated by weather and weather prediction, and he had an early appreciation of the potential of aeronautics for studying the atmosphere, and for understanding the weather. The balloon was then becoming a platform for scient
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