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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: The Tempest Prognosticator Used Leeches To Predict Stormy Weather
Description: Today was the birthday in 1794 of George Merryweather, the inventor of his era’s most fascinating leech-based weather predicting contraption: the tempest prognosticator. Plus: today in 1953, a phone company director pretty much predicts the smartphones of today.
A Council Of Leeches Used To Predict Storms Inside The "Tempest Prognosticator" (IFL Science)
Is This Cellphone Prediction from 1953 Real? (Snopes)
We prognosticate that when you back us on Patreon, we will strike the bell of knowledge over and over, and without resorting to leeches