José María Algué
José María Algué, SI (Manresa, 1856 - Roquetes, Spain 1930), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and meteorologist in the observatory of Manila. He invented the barocyclonometer, the nephoscope and a kind of microseismograph. He published: Baguíos y ciclones Filipinos, El barociclonómetro, Las nubes en el archipiélago Filipino, El clima de Filipinas and Los ciclones en el Extremo Oriente.
Bibliography
- Udías Vallina, Agustín, Searching the Heavens and the Earth. The history of the Jesuit observatories, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, p. 293.
See also
| Persondata |
| Name |
Algue, Jose Maria |
| Alternative names |
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| Short description |
Spanish Roman Catholic priest and meteorologist |
| Date of birth |
1856 |
| Place of birth |
Manresa |
| Date of death |
1930 |
| Place of death |
Roquetes |