Robert Saint George Dyrenforth

Robert Saint George Dy'renforth[1] (1844–1910) was an American soldier and lawyer. He was born in Chicago, graduated at Breslau in 1861, and served in the United States Army (1861–66) as major of volunteer cavalry, assistant inspector general and signal officer in the Department of the Missouri, and was several times brevetted. In 1866 he was correspondent of the Chicago Post and Times during the Austro-Prussian War. He studied mechanical engineering at Heidelberg 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 carried out a series of experiments for the government, using violent explosions in Texas to condense water vapor into rain.[2] Nicknamed the "Rain Maker", according to Timothy Egan in his 2006 book, "The Worst Hard Time", Mr. Dyrenforth's efforts were entirely unsuccessful. They did not yield a single drop of rain. From then on, he was called "Dry-Henceforth".[3][4]

References
  1. The New International Encyclopædia. Dodd, Mead. 1911. p. 572.
  2. Ley, Willy (February 1961). "Let's Do Something About the Weather". For Your Information. Galaxy Science Fiction. pp. 72–84.
  3. Timothy Egan, "The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl.", 2006.
  4. Sweeney, Kevin Z. (2016-11-14). Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-8061-5848-8.


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