Weather map map using his own system of symbols, thereby creating the world's first weather map. He used his map to prove that air circulated clockwise around areas of high pressure; he coined the term 'anticyclone' to describe the phenomenon. He was also instrumental in publishing the first weather map in a newspaper, for which he modified the pantograph (an instrument for copying drawings) to inscribe the map onto printing blocks. "The Times" began printing weather maps using these methods with data from the Meteorological Office. The introduction of country-wide weather maps required the existence of national telegraph networks so that data
Etymology of electricity "elēkrŏn", meaning 'shining light'. The letter Q was used for electric charge instead of the letter E because the letter was already used to represent the electron. The word "electric" was first used by Francis Bacon to describe materials like amber that attracted other objects. The first usage of the English word "electricity" is ascribed to Sir Thomas Browne in his 1646 work, "Pseudodoxia Epidemica": In this context, an "Electrick" or "Electrick body" was a non-conductor, or an object capable of attracting "light bodies" (like bits of paper) when excited by friction; a piece of amber is "an Electrick", while