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Daniel Ruggle experimenting with captive balloons loaded with explosive materials, 1891 (engraving)

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Daniel Ruggle experimenting with captive balloons loaded with explosive materials, 1891 (engraving)
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Patrice Cartier
Medium
engraving
Date
1891 AD (C19th AD)
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Engraving from La Science Illustree (edited by Louis Figuier), second semester 1891 - Daniel Ruggle (Ruggles), an ancestor of “rainmakers”. In 1880 he took a patent on a process designed to draw water from the sky by means of captive balloons loaded with explosive materials. These balloons were held by a conductive cable designed to allow electric ignition by means of a spark supplied by an induction coil-

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19th century / France / Europe / weather / rain / engraving / france french / Science / scientist / experiment / rain / explosion / explosive / invention / inventor / 19th century / black and white / mzengraving

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