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Best Of: The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect

Lost Women of Science by Lost Women of Science

Jun 25, 202631:31Science & Medicine

In 1856, decades before the term “greenhouse gas” was coined, Eunice Newton Foote demonstrated the greenhouse effect in her home laboratory. She placed a glass cylinder full of carbon dioxide in the sun, and found that i...

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Best Of: The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect is an episode from Lost Women of Science by Lost Women of Science. In 1856, decades before the term “greenhouse gas” was coined, Eunice Newton Foote demonstrated the greenhouse effec...

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Published Jun 25, 2026, 31:31 long, audio available.