In the early 1900s, Wilson A. Bentley sent 500 prints of his snowflakes to the Smithsonian to ensure their safety for the future. The images are now part of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.

In a new series for the first day of each month ... Even altered by the hand of Bentley, these images represent beautiful ghosts from a winter that bristled the air over a century ago.

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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, meteorologist Wilson Bentley photographed more than 5,000 individual snowflakes in stunning detail. In all that time, he never found any two which were ...

However, in 1885, scientist Wilson Bentley devised a clever way of attaching his camera to a microscope so he could take photographs of snowflakes in greater detail than ever before. Getting this ...

Seuss first introduced young readers to his ... Which got us wondering… Microscopic view of snowflakes by Wilson Bentley from the Annual Summary of the Monthly Weather Review for 1902.