- Robert Saint George Dyrenforth
Robert Saint George Dy'renforth (1844-1910) was an American soldier and
lawyer . He was born in Chicago, graduated at Breslau in 1861, and served in theUnited States Army (1861-66) as major of volunteercavalry , assistant inspector general and signal officer in theDepartment of the Missouri , and was several times brevetted. In 1866 he was correspondent of the Chicago "Post" and "Times" during the war betweenAustria andPrussia . He studiedmechanical engineering atHeidelberg in 1866-69. He worked in the U. S. Patent Office (1871-85), resigned from there in 1885 and practiced as a patent and corporation lawyer."Rain Maker"
Robert Saint George Dyrenforth became popularly known as "Rain Maker" while carrying out a series of experiments for the government, using violent explosions in
Texas to condensewater vapor intorain .
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