Projects related to hurricane tracking and protection, 1944-1951.

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Projects related to hurricane tracking and protection, 1944-1951.

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Contains historical files related to weather tracking research and high wind protection research conducted at the University of Florida's Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station. Weather tracking research was sponsored by the Department of Defense in the late 1940s. Of special interest is a radar photograph of a hurricane tracked across the Florida peninsula. Accompanying the photograph is correspondence related to this event, including a letter to Senator Claude Pepper explaining the implications of the research for Florida's protection against hurricanes.

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University of Florida. Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station

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The predecessor of the Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station (EIES) at the University of Florida was the Engineering Experiment Station created, but not funded, by the Florida Board of Control in 1929. The Dean of the College of Engineering served as the Director of the Engineering Experiment Station. When the state legislature created EIES in 1941, Dean Joseph Weil was appointed its first director. He served as the director until 1949, when Ralph Alexander Morgen became the Station head...