![]() ![]() Already quite a famous inventor, Edison announced he was going to measure the heat from the solar corona. He brought along a pocket-sized devic called a “taimeter” that he claimed could detect a change in temperature of only 0.000001 degree. His drawing made the cover of Harper’s Weekly. Another noted astronomer, Henry Draper, led an eclipse party which included the famous inventor Thomas Edison. Draper succeeded in his efforts to photograph the sun’s corona.Įclipse History: Total Solar Eclipses in the United Statesīut both men may have been upstaged by a young Thomas Edison. Invited by a friend to view the total eclipse with Draper’s party in Wyoming, the 31-year-old Edison observed the eclipse from a chicken yard! Astronomer Samuel Langley (later director of the Smithsonian Institute) drew a naked-eye sketch that showed coronal streams extending an amazing 12 times the Sun’s diameter (more than 10 million miles). The Jeclipse is one of only 16 eclipses since 1792 it ran down the Rockies over Boulder, Denver, and Colorado Springs, then across Texas and Louisiana.Ī goal of astronomers at this eclipse was to discern the true nature of the corona. The Solar Eclipse of 1878 and Thomas Edisonįor any spot on Earth, a total solar eclipse occurs an average of only once every 300 to 400 years. Let’s look back at some of the truly incredible celestial events in history! From the 1878 solar eclipse with Thomas Edison to the purple Moon of 1950, enjoy some of the most spectacular, memorable, and even scary sky spectacles visible to the naked eye since 1792, when The Old Farmer’s Almanac was founded.
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