José María Algué
José María Algué, SJ (29 December 1856 – 27 May 1930), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and meteorologist in the observatory of Manila. He invented the barocyclonometer, the nephoscope and a kind of microseismograph. The barocyclonometer was officially adopted by the US Navy and warships of the North Atlantic Squadron were equipped with them around 1914.[1] Father Algué was an honorary member of the Royal Society of London and the Pontificia Accademia Romana.
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| Born | December 29, 1856 |
| Died | May 27, 1930 (aged 73) |
| Nationality | Spanish |
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| Fields | Meteorology |
Works
- (1897). Baguíos y Ciclones Filipinos
- (1897). El Barociclonómetro
- (1898). Las Nubes en el Archipiélago Filipino
- (1898). El Baguio de Samar y Leyte, Octubre 12-13, 1897
- (1900). El Archipiélago Filipino
- (1904). Atlas de Filipinas
Works in English translation
- (1900). Atlas of the Philippine Islands, Government Printing Office.
- (1902). Ground Temperature Observations at Manila, 1896-1902, Bureau of Public Printing.
- (1904). The Climate of the Philippines, Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census.
- (1904). The Cyclones of the Far East, Bureau of Public Printing.
- (1908). "The Meteorological Conditions in the Philippine Islands, 1908," Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Vol. XXXV, No. 151.
- (1909). Mirador Observatory, Baguio, Benguet, Bureau of Printing.
Notes
- Annual Report of the Secretary of War, Volume 3. War Department, US Government Press. 1914. p. 144.
References
- Udías Vallina, Agustín (2003). Searching the Heavens and the Earth. The History of the Jesuit Observatories, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 293.
- Walsh, James J. Science in the Philippines, New York.
- Warren, James Francis (2009). "Scientific Superman: Father José Algué, Jesuit Meteorology, and the Philippines under American Rule, 1897-1924." In Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State, Part VIII, University of Wisconsin Press.
See also
- List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics
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