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Danny Dunn And The Weather Machine (Danny Dunn, #10)

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I read this when I was a kid! Classic fun adventure! Danny Dunn series of books are great. clean reading!

Danny Dunn and his friends, with the help of Professor Bullfinch, decide to do somehting to end the drought of their home town. They decide to construct a ionic transmitter that makes little clouds and minature rainstorms! The drought is soon over and the reader learns a bit about weather in the process!

Well worth the read. I'd gladly feel good about giving it as a gift to the young reader!

I started reading the Danny Dunn books in the 1960's, & this is still one of my
favorites. It's interesting to notice how much has been learned abt weather since
it was written, but one line is still true - "we still don't know all abt weather
by a long shot". It is strange to imagine a "weather" world without satelites or
super weather computers.

This is a book where I learned in college just how "science fiction" it is. I didn't
think anything of the lightning hitting the soup or the top of Snitcher's head until
I was introduced to a spark timer in Physics. The lab instructor advised us to be
careful with the timer as it made a 1/4" spark with translated to 2000 volts. In
the book the pictures of the lightning bolt appear to be abt 2-3 ft, so guess
what?! The soup would've exploded, & Snitcher would have been fried (of course
Danny would not have used it the 2nd time after he got thru cleaning up the remains
of the kitchen. But hey, Jay Williams took the view Danny did - don't bother with
the details.

Still despite the obvious fiction it was a fun book. The problem with the weather
forcaster Mr. Elswing & his "split personality" was a laugh, as well as the snow
storm in the weather office. If you like books that are "period pieces", this is
a great read.