Hidden science: Library intern discovers long-lost rainmaking device invented 70 years ago
‘Unbeknownst to virtually everyone, a scientist built a device around the middle of last century that could actually make it rain, and now a research internist is hard at work trying to find it.
As reported by McClatchy Papers, while working at the Tacoma (Washington) Historical Society, Nichole Hine came across an old black-and-white photograph of what was described as a rainmaking machine.
While checking the archives of the Tacoma Public Library, Hines, 21, discovered the photo while working on an exhibit about local inventors. The picture depicts the inventor of the device, which is about the size of a suitcase, loading it onto an airplane, but it did not contain much information about where the machine may be today.’
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