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Type: Photographs

Date: 1890

Image ID: RU 31 Box 12 Folder 17

Description: Wilson A. Bentley first became fascinated with snow during his childhood on a Vermont farm, and he experimented for years with ways to view individual snowflakes in order to study their crystalline structure. He eventually attached a camera to his microscope, and in 1885 he successfully photographed the flakes. This photomicrograph and more than five thousand others supported the belief that no two snowflakes are alike, leading scientists to study his work and publish it in numerous scientific articles and magazines. In 1903 Bentley sent prints of his snowflakes to the Smithsonian, hoping they might be of interest to Secretary Samuel P. Langley.

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Snowflake Study

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Wilson Bentley  (1867–1931)  wikidata:Q218471 s:en:Author:Wilson Alwyn Bentley
 
Wilson Bentley
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pseudonym: Bentley, Wilson Alwyn; Wilson Alwyn Bentley; Wilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley; W. A. Bentley; Wilson A. Bentley; Snowflake Bentley
Description American farmer and photographer
Date of birth/death 9 February 1867 Edit this at Wikidata 23 December 1931 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Jericho Jericho
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creator QS:P170,Q218471
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