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- 1947-12-05
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
In 1947 Dr. Robert Sprenger, an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the College of Puget Sound, and one of his students developed an invention for seeding clouds. The machine they built would produce rain by introducing a fine invisible smoke of silver iodide particles into the clouds. Left to right, C. L. "Chip" Chipman, Prosser Pilot who would fly the airplane, Dr. Robert Sprenger, and Harvey E. Wegner, College of Puget Sound student, are going over some details prior to the testing. (T. Times, 12/5/47, p. 2).
Inventors; Inventions; Rain making--Tacoma; Machinery; Equipment; Students--Tacoma; College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Prosser Pilots (Tacoma);