Wilson Alwyn Bentley was an American photographer and meteorologist. He was the first person who was able to capture detailed photos of snowflakes. Because of his achievement, he was called "Snowflake ...

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JERICHO - In the winter months, specifically when it's snowing, a man in Jericho ventures into his yard with a board roughly the size of a pizza box wrapped in black felt. He presents the board to the ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Vermont farmer Wilson A. Bentley was known as Snowflake Bentley for his pioneering 19th-century photography of more than 5,000 jewel-like snowflakes -- no two alike. Bentley, also ...

No two snowflakes are alike. You probably learned that at an early age. But you might not know the man who discovered it. The lesson can be traced back to Wilson Bentley, a farmer from Jericho, ...

The first snow of the season fell on the day I visited Wilson Bentley’s photography collection. It was just a dusting, the flakes so tiny and sparse I could barely distinguish them against the white ...

Wanting to capture what he saw, Bentley took to sketching pictures of the crystals. "Under the microscope I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty," he said years later. (He often used the ...

In 1885, Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley photographed the first snowflake ever at his home in the town within eyeshot of Vermont's highest peak, Mount Mansfield. More than a century later, Stuart Hall, who ...

The first snow in New England marks the beginning of dark days and frigid temperatures — grueling conditions endured in exchange for the reward of spring. But a century ago, Vermont farmer Wilson ...

NORFOLK, Va. — While most of us grew up cutting out snowflakes from construction paper, with six points, the truth is, many snowflakes don’t look like the star-shaped dendrites we are used to seeing.