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Who discovered snowflakes?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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William Bentley of Jericho, Vermont rigged a camera to a microscope contraption of his in 1885 to examine snowflakes closely. His photographs were what credited him as being the amateur scientist who discovered that no two are ever alike.

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Skiing is thought to have been practiced for thousands of years. There are rock drawings in Norway that date to 4000 B.C. that picture a man on skis holding a stick.

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It is unclear as to when snow was first discovered however in 1607 in a Pow-ha-tan village, snow was documented in detail for the first time.

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There is no first recorded snowfall yet, but in the future we may see the snow of the first snowfall.

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