Blue Hill Observatory

Blue Hill Observatory was (and still is) a weather station located on the Great Blue Hill, south of Boston. It was founded by Abbott Lawrence Rotch.

Links

• "The Highest Kite Ascent", Aeronautical Journal, January, 1898, p. 22 – two reports by Rotch announcing new heights for kites: 9,386' and then 11,086' above Blue Hill.

References

Publications referring to Blue Hill Observatory

• Clayton, 1894, The Eddy Malay tailless kite (Simple title: The Eddy Malay tailless kite, Journal: Scient. Amer.)
• Rotch, 1896, Emploi de cerfs-volants pour enlever des instruments météorologiques enregistreurs à l'Observatoire de Blue Hill, Mass. (Simple title: Use of kites to remove recording weather instruments at the Blue Hill Observatory, Mass., Journal: Report of the International Meteorological Committee)
• Millet, 1897, Scientific kite-flying (Simple title: Scientific kite-flying, Journal: Century Mag.)
• Eddy, 1897, Photographing from kites (Simple title: Photographing from kites, Journal: Century Mag.)
• Rotch, 1898, Rapport sur les moyens employés au Blue Hill Observatory (Mass., États-Unis), pour obtenir les observations météorologiques avec des cerfs-volants (Simple title: Report on the means employed at the Blue Hill Observatory (Mass., USA) to obtain weather observations with kites, Journal: Protok. Erste Vers. Int. Aer. Comm.)
• Hergesell, 1898, Neue Drachen-Versuche auf dem Blue Hill Observatorium (Simple title: New kite trials at the Blue Hill Observatory, Journal: Ill. Aër. Mitt.)
• Clayton, 1898, Examples of the diurnal and cyclonic changes in temperature and relative humidity at different heights in the free air (Simple title: Examples of the diurnal and cyclonic changes in temperature and relative humidity at different heights in the free air, Journal: Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory Bulletin)
• Ferguson, 1899, Progress of experiments with kites during 1897-1898, at Blue Hill Observatory (Simple title: Progress of experiments with kites during 1897-1898, at Blue Hill Observatory, Journal: Scient. Amer. Suppl.)
• Bellet, 1899, Les cerfs-volants météorologiques de Blue Hill (Simple title: The meteorological kites at Blue Hill, Journal: La Nature)
• Lecornu, 1902, Les cerfs-volants (Simple title: Les cerfs-volants)
• Publication 64, 1903, Aerial contrivances for scouting purposes (Simple title: Aerial contrivances for scouting purposes, Journal: Aer. World)
• La Vaulx, 1905, L'observatoire de Blue-Hill (Simple title: Blue Hill Observatory, Journal: L'Aérophile)
• Shrigley, 1909, The Aero Club of New England (Simple title: The Aero Club of New England, Journal: Aeronautics (US))
• Publication 11388, 1909, Sounding the air. Blue Hill Observatory experiments (Simple title: Sounding the air. Blue Hill Observatory experiments, Journal: Knowl. Illus. Scient. News)
• Rotch, 1910, The relation of the wind to aerial navigation (Simple title: The relation of the wind to aerial navigation, Journal: Aircraft • Epitome Aeronautical Annual)
• McAdie, 1917, Principles of Aërography (Simple title: The Principles of Aërography)
• Suay, 2014 (Simple title: Kites)
• Suay, 2014 (Simple title: Kites)

Organization names	Blue Hill Observatory
Entity type
Country	US
City	Dorchester, Massachusetts
Affiliated with
Scope
Started aero
Ended aero
Keywords	meteorology, experiment location
Key people	Abbott Lawrence Rotch, Alexander McAdie
Wikidata id	Q1803017