Significant events in the development of Meteorology

a) 350 BC: Weather Science is discussed in Aristotle’s Meteorologica

b) 1593: Galileo described thermoscope (the 1st thermometer is most likely attributed to Santorre, 1612)

c) 1643: Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer

d) 1664: Weather observations begin in Paris

e) 1714: The Fahrenheit Scale for temperature measurement was introduced

f) 1736: The Centigrade scale was introduced (it was first formally proposed by du Crest in 1641)

g) 1783: The Hair hygrometer was invented

h) 1825: August devised the psychrometer

i) 1837: Pyrheliometer for measuring Insolation was constructed

j) 1892: Beginning of the systematic use of balance to monitor free air

k) 1925: Beginning of the systematic data in collection using aircraft

l) 1928: Radiosondes (ballon carried instruments) was first used

m) 1960: United State launched the first meteorological satellite, Tyros I

n) 1990: Doppler radar network introduced in the US