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This time Dr. Reichelderfer got an argument from an expert: Nobel Prizewinner Irving Langmuir of General Electric Co. The dry ice method does work, Langmuir insisted, if it is done right...
...rainmaking method was developed only last year at General Electric Co.'s Schenectady, N.Y. laboratories by Engineer Vincent J. Schaefer and Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Irving Langmuir (TIME...
...hailstorms, which do enormous damage to crops in certain parts of the country. Hail is formed when raindrops are sucked into rising currents in a thundercloud. They freeze high in the air, collide with supercooled water droplets, and grow into crop-slashing hailstones. Dr. Irving Langmuir proposes to charge the thunder-threatening air with silver iodide particles. Sucked up into the cloud, they will turn the supercooled droplets into snow before they can build up hailstones...
Other icemen: Dr. Irving Langmuir and Vincent J. Schaefer of General Electric, the only men who have done anything about the weather. On Nov. 13, they proved that they could turn a cold cloud into snow by sprinkling it with dry ice (TIME, Nov. 25). Last week, Schaefer told of a further triumph. He walked into a cold ground fog swinging a wire basket of dry ice round his head. The fog parted, leaving a lane, as the Red Sea water parted for the Children of Israel...
...plane plunged into the cloud, Schaefer radioed back to Dr. Langmuir that he was about to begin. Then he carefully scattered six pounds of dry-ice pellets through the cloud in a belt three miles long. In two minutes flat the poisoned cloud was writhing with agonies so enormous that Dr. Langmuir could see them in faraway Schenectady...