José María Algué, SJ (29 December 1856 – 27 May 1930), was a Spanish

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and

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in the

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. He invented the barocyclonometer, the nephoscope and a kind of microseismograph. The barocyclonometer was officially adopted by the

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and warships of the

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were equipped with them around 1914. Father Algué was an honorary member of the

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of London and the Pontificia Accademia Romana.

Works

* (1897). ''Baguíos y Ciclones Filipinos'' * (1897). ''El Barociclonómetro'' * (1898). ''Las Nubes en el Archipiélago Filipino'' * (1898). ''El Baguio de Samar y Leyte, Octubre 12-13, 1897'' * (1900). ''El Archipiélago Filipino'' * (1904). ''Atlas de Filipinas'' Works in English translation * (1900)
''Atlas of the Philippine Islands''
Government Printing Office. * (1902)
''Ground Temperature Observations at Manila''
1896–1902, Bureau of Public Printing. * (1904)
''The Climate of the Philippines''
Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. * (1904)
''The Cyclones of the Far East''
Bureau of Public Printing. * (1908). "The Meteorological Conditions in the Philippine Islands, 1908," ''Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society'', Vol. XXXV, No. 151. * (1909)
''Mirador Observatory, Baguio, Benguet''
Bureau of Printing.

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References

* Udías Vallina, Agustín (2003). ''Searching the Heavens and the Earth. The History of the Jesuit Observatories,'' Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 293. * Walsh, James J
''Science in the Philippines''
New York. * Warren, James Francis (2009). "Scientific Superman: Father José Algué, Jesuit Meteorology, and the Philippines under American Rule, 1897-1924." In ''Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State'', Part VIII, University of Wisconsin Press.

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