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grounding of wires. These problems drew attention to weather
dynamics. One report in Canada in 1883 stated: “It was early
discovered that when the wind at Montreal was from the East
or North-East, rain storms travelled from the West, and the
stronger the land current, the faster came the rain from the
opposite direction.” It is clear that telegraph, by providing a
wide sweep of instant information, could reveal meteorological
patterns of force quite beyond observation by pre-electric man.