Climatron
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The Climatron is a greenhouse enclosed in a geodesic dome that is part of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Initiated by then Garden director Frits W. Went, the dome is the world's first com
The Climatron greenhouse at the Missouri Botanical Garden, side entrance, 2004
Interior of the Climatron as it was in the early 1980s (HABS photo – August 1983)
Frits Warmolt Went
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Frits Warmolt Went was a Dutch biologist whose 1928 experiment demonstrated the existence of auxin in plants.
Climatron
…The Climatron is a greenhouse enclosed in a geodesic dome that is part of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Initiated by then Garden director Frits W. Went, the dome is the world's first completely air-conditioned greenhouse and the first geodesic dome to be enclosed in rigid Plexiglass (Perspex) panels…
Frits Warmolt Went