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Tue 04 Apr 2001Tickling the clouds to water the Sahara
Robert St George Dyrenforth's unsuccessful attempts in 1891 to squeeze rainfall from reluctant clouds were featured yesterday in Weather Eye. He was followed some years later by Charles Hatfield, who had similar ambitions but a different methodology - and rather more success.
Charles Malory Hatfield was born in Kansas in 1875. According to himself, his first experiments were carried out in the kitchen, during which he noticed that certain chemical combinations seemed to cause steam from the kettle to drift in their direction.
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