Eunice Newton Foote was a scientist who lived before the American Civil War, and lived in Seneca Falls, New York. She was an inventor and also a women's rights activist. Not much else is known about her, but there is a fairly well written Wikipedia article here. Check out this article from Climate News on her 200th birthday in 2019.
Eunice may have written and presented the first known experiment on how the sun creates heat, and how that heat can get trapped in the atmosphere with differing gasses.
Some of the recent viral tweets about climate change mention that there are articles from the 1860s-1870s. These articles only exist because of Eunice Newton Foote's experiment which she presented on August 24, 1856.
Guess what?
We have a hard copy of this article when in was printed in November of that year, and we have a copy of this journal in the collection upstairs. Digital copies are available through the Digital Collections at CMU here. You can also request a copy through Document Delivery.
Check it out below.
Lastly, Texas Tech is home to a Climate Center, and link to the center and their work, inclduing their series, "Science by the Glass", is located here: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/csc/
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