He left Cape Town in 1937 to become the founding director of the Bernard Price Institute of Geophysics at Witwatersrand University where he made significant contributions to the study of atmospheric electricity, photographing lightning and investigating the electric fields generated by thunderclouds.
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Loomis's patent is substantially similar to U . S . Patent 126, 356 received three months earlier by William Henry Ward who applied for the patent on June 29, 1871 when Loomis was actively promoting his idea of using atmospheric electricity for telegraph communication.
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The news of the death of Georg Wilhelm Richmann, a professor in St . Petersburg, who was killed by lightning in 1753 during his attempt at measuring the intensity of the electric field in the atmosphere, caused Divia to become interested in atmospheric electricity.
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The Admiralty once again instructed the participants to gather such scientific data as " must prove most valuable and interesting to the science of our country . " They were to pay particular attention to magnetic measurements, especially the possible interactions between magnetic needles, atmospheric electricity and the aurora borealis.
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He became an expert on the electrical conductivity of gases, the properties of ions, and the behavior of atmospheric electricity, publishing in journals including the " Physical Review ", " Journal of Applied Physics ", " Journal of Chemical Physics ", and the " Journal of Atmospheric Electricity and Terrestrial Magnetism ".
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He became an expert on the electrical conductivity of gases, the properties of ions, and the behavior of atmospheric electricity, publishing in journals including the " Physical Review ", " Journal of Applied Physics ", " Journal of Chemical Physics ", and the " Journal of Atmospheric Electricity and Terrestrial Magnetism ".
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Their joint papers and communications ( published in " Nature, Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity ", and by the Royal Society ), remain to this day, aside from a number of other pathbreaking contributions they also published in various Physics journals, the most definitive scientific studies on the structure and tendencies of small crystals.
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The programmable calculators can in many cases, via these connections, be used with peripherals such as data loggers and interfaces for instruments like thermometers, pH meters, weather instruments of all kinds, light meters, audio probes and microphones, dynamometers, pressure gauges, voltmeters, ammeters, ohm meters, atmospheric electricity measurement apparatus, ion counters, Geiger counters and scintillometers, altimeters, scales, accelerometers and many others.
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That is that the internal generation of atmospheric electricity, mostly in the tropical regions, affects clouds and meteorological processes all over the globe, and because this current generation changes on daily, seasonal, and longer timescales ( notably with global warming ) it is an additional input to weather and climate on those timescales that has not been included in current global climate change models.
