Who set out to explore worldwide wind and current patterns for commercial and naval purposes?
a. Charles Wilkes
b. Benjamin Franklin
c. Tim Folger
d. Matthew Maury
ANS: D
Although Benjamin Franklin and Tim Folger were the first to document these patterns off eastern
North America, Matthew Maury used their information and a trove of additional information to create
worldwide charts with these patterns. He would then issue these charts to mariners in exchange for
their own logbooks. Information can be found in the section The First Scientific Experiments Were
Undertaken by Government
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