Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1909 — WEATHER BALLOONS FOUND [ARTICLE]

WEATHER BALLOONS FOUND

Experiment Bags Come to Earth tlx Mlles From Columbus, Ind. Columbus, Ind., Sept. 28.— The balloons sent up in Indianapolis under the direction of the weather bureau have been found by J. S. Stienbarger, on his farm six miles north of this place. In compliance with a note attached to one of the balloons, Stienbarger has forwarded them by express to the Mount weather observatory, in Virginia. The balloons were sent up bearing various instruments that automatically recorded the temperatures at various altitudes, the direction of the wind and its velocity, relative humidity and barometric pressure. The balloons were of rubber and about six feet in diameter.