Carl Edgar Myers, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Carl Edgar Myers

Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1842

Date of Death: 30-Nov-1925

Profession: inventor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Carl Edgar Myers ((1842-03-02)March 2, 1842 – (1925-11-30)November 30, 1925) was an American businessman, scientist, inventor, meteorologist, balloonist, and aeronautical engineer.
He invented many types of hydrogen balloon airships and related equipment.
His business of making passenger airshipballoons and instrument balloons at his "balloon farm" was well known throughout the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
He invented a machine for varnishing fabric that would make it impervious to hydrogen so that the finished product could be made into large envelopes for lighter-than-air balloons. Myers also experimented in making artificial rain in areas where rain was deficient for agriculture.
He made oxy-hydrogen balloons that were exploded at high altitude to cause rain.
He contracted with the U.S.
government and lumber companies to make these balloon "bombs" for the production of man-made rain. Myers was a manager for the 1904 St.
Louis World's Fair and the superintendent of their Aeronautic Concourse for balloon demonstrations and aerial races.
He made balloon military warships and inventions that could be used for defense in case of attack by air by foreign interests and demonstrated at the Fair.