Show WEATHER BUREAUS BUREAU BALLOONS The Circle Magazine Announcement is made mado by the United States weather bureau bur I au of the most re remarkable remarkable remarkable human achievement in its way up to date namely the tho sending of a balloon carving automatic record instruments to an elevation of fit teen miles above the surface of the earth This Is by far tar the greatest height ever attained by any balloon or other contrivance devised by man The balloon in question was of the kind known as a pilot balloon It was of rubber and much resembled the familiar toy such as are sold on the streets save only that it was bigger being six feet in diameter and had a small wicker cage attached to it to contain the instrument afore aforesaid aforesaId aforesaid said The Die weather bureau recently has been making a great many balloons of this kind which are intended to servo serve as explorers of the higher atmosphere In deed It t is largely upon these contrivances contrIvances ances that It rests Its hopes of or obtain ing new nev and valuable knowledge about the unexplored regions of ot the upper air It is thought that such messen messengers messengers messengers gers making automatic observations at various levels as they ascend will reach an elevation of twenty miles and it is expected that they will bring back many a startling and useful fact to be added to the sum of ot information already ady gained Even now they have contributed records of ot low temperature and high wind velocities far aloft which have been a revelation compelling a reconstruction of oC ideas concerning the dynamics of ot the atmosphere |