"HISTORY / United States / General." . . "Tornado." . . . . "Meteorologische Beobachtung." . . "Wirbelsturm." . . "USA." . . . . "Storm kings : the untold history of America's first tornado chasers"@en . . "Storm kings : the untold history of America's first tornado chasers" . . . "In Storm Kings, Lee Sandlin retraces America's fascination and unique relationship to tornadoes and the weather. From Ben Franklin's early experiments, to \"the great storm debates\" of the nineteenth century, to heartland life in the early twentieth century, Sandlin shows how tornado chasing helped foster the birth of meteorology, recreating with vivid descriptions some of the most devastating storms in America's history. Drawing on memoirs, letters, eyewitness testimonies, and numerous archives, Sandlin brings to life the forgotten characters and scientists that changed a nation and how successive generations came to understand and finally coexist with the spiraling menace that could erase lives and whole towns in an instant."@en . "Storm kings the untold history of America's first tornado chasers" . . . . . . "Storm kings : America's first tornado chasers"@en . . "Electronic books"@en . . "Electronic books" . "History"@en . "A riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster--the supercell tornado--that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America."@en . . . "Storm kings the untold history of america's first tornado chasers"@en . . "With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrationsFrom the acclaimed author of Wicked River comes Storm Kings, a riveting tale of supercell tornadoes and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists whose discoveries created the science of modern meteorology.While tornadoes have occasionally been spotted elsewhere, only the central plains of North America have the perfect conditions for their creation. For the early settlers the sight of a funnel cloud was an unearthly event. They called it the \"Storm King,\" and their descriptions bordered on the supernatural: it glowed green or red, it whistled or moaned or sang. In Storm Kings, Lee Sandlin explores America's fascination with and unique relationship to tornadoes. From Ben Franklin's early experiments to the \"great storm war\" of the nineteenth century to heartland life in the early twentieth century, Sandlin re-creates with vivid descriptions some of the most devastating storms in..." . . . . . . . . .