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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Abbe, Cleveland, 1838- (search)
Abbe, Cleveland, 1838- Meteorologist; born in New York, Dec. 3, 1838. He was graduated at the College of the City of New York in 1857; studied astronomy with Brunnow at Ann Arbor. Mich., and with Gould at Cambridge, Mass.; and, after serving four years in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. spent two years in study at the Nicholas Central Observatory at Pulkowa, Russia. In 1868 he became director of the Cincinnati Observatory, and while there began making daily weather reports to the local Chamber of Commerce. The value of this work induced the United States government to establish a similar bureau. He was appointed meteorologist to the United States signal service (q. v.) in 1871, and in 1879 became meteorologist to the United States weather Bureau (q. v.). In addition to his duties in this field, he also became editor of the Monthly weather review, Professor of Meteorology in Columbian University, Washington D. C., and Lecturer on Meteorology in Johns Hopkins Uni
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Old probabilities, (search)
Old probabilities, A title familiarly given to the head of the United States weather bureau, first applied to Professor Abbe by Gen. Albert J. Myer, the chief signal-officer of the bureau.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Raynal, Guillaume Thomas Francois 1713-1793 (search)
Raynal, Guillaume Thomas Francois 1713-1793 Usually called Abbe, historian; born in St. Geniez, France, April 12, 1713. His philosophic and political history of the two Indies appeared in Paris in 1770. It was an indictment of royalty, while it praised the people of the United States of America as models of heroism such as antiquity boasted of, and spoke of New England in particular as a land that knew how to be happy without kings and without priests. He spoke of philosophy as wishing to see all peoples happy, and said, If the love of justice had decided the Court of Versailles to the alliance of a monarchy with a people defending its liberty, the first article of its treaty with the United States should have been that all oppressed peoples have the right to rise against their oppressors. Raynal was indicted, and fled through Brussels to Holland, leaving his books to be burned by the common hangman. He subsequently came to the United States. His book found a welcome in ma
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Weather Bureau. (search)
ut daily by Professor Henry at the Smithsonian Institution in 1854, and European governments had issued storm warnings in Holland, France, and England; but Prof. Cleveland Abbe, meteorologist, of Cincinnati, originated the present system of weather forecasts. Professor Abbe began the publication of the Weather bulletin of the CProfessor Abbe began the publication of the Weather bulletin of the Cincinnati Observatory, for the benefit of the Cincinnati chamber of commerce, Sept. 1, 1869. His success led Professor Lapham, of Milwaukee, to cause memorials for a national system, to be endorsed by all chambers of commerce and boards of trade, and presented to Congress with a bill by Gen. H. E. Paine, resulting in the act of 1 at an early hour the probabilities for the day. The title Old probabilities, familiarly applied to the head of the weather bureau, was first given in 1869 to Professor Abbe, chosen in 1870 by General Myer to prepare probabilities, or storm-warnings. Chronology. First weather bulletins of simultaneous observations issued and