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 ...

Bentley's painstaking work culminated in the publication of “Snow Crystals” in 1931, a book that continues to inspire curiosity about the fleeting beauty of snow.

On January 15th, 1885, he captured the first image of a snowflake. Bentley spent the next 25 years capturing images of snowflakes and keeping meteorological records.

Pictures of snow flakes taken by Wilson A Bentley go on sale. Bentley's photos don't meet modern standards because he was "working with crude equipment," said Kenneth G. Libbrecht, who has written ...

Getting a snowflake from the sky to the microscope also required some ingenuity. Bentley would catch them on a special tray, transfer the flakes oh-so-delicately to a chilled glass plate, and ...

History This Vermont man invented snowflake photography Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley is the reason we know how beautiful snowflakes are. Images of snow crystals taken by Wilson Alwyn Bentley.

As part of its mandate to collect and preserve scientific data for generations to come, it has held Bentley’s 500 snowflake photographs since 1904. “We are a big data repository.

Snowflake Bentley was a world-famous snow photographer from Vermont, who coined the phrase that no two snowflakes are alike. Well, he ought to know! 60-Second Know-It-All ...

One of the 500 snowflake images Wilson Bentley donated to the Smithsonian. (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives) The Jan. 16 Style article "The man who showed us no two snowflakes are ...