Why did "Snowflake" Bentley take photographs of snow
crystals?snowflakebentleysm  Wilson Bentley was a farmer, but he
was also a scientist. Every day, he recorded the weather in a
notebook. In the winter, he observed snowflakes and frost. In
the summer, he studied dewdrops and rain clouds. He used his
observations to learn more about the weather.  “Snowflake”
Bentley earned his nickname by taking photomicrographs of snow
crystals. A photomicrograph is a photograph of something very
small taken through a microscope. Snow crystals are very small
and combine to make snowflakes. He photographed over 5,000 snow
crystals and no two were alike.  storyofsnowbentleysmWilson
Bentley was born in Jericho, Vermont in 1865. He lived in the
same farmhouse all of his life. When he was 15 years old, his
mother gave him an old microscope. He caught snowflakes and
looked at them under the microscope. He tried to draw the
designs of the snow crystals, but they melted or evaporated too
fast. His parents spent $100 to buy him a ca