The invention of the telegraph in the mid-1800s improved weather forecasting because
A) the location and movement of weather conditions could be tracked
B) radiosondes carried telegraph instruments to multiple locations
C) computers hadn't been invented yet
D) an instrument for measuring temperature had not yet been invented
Answer: A
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