Observatorio Meteorologico de Manila and the first typhoon warnings in the Far East (1865-1899)

A Jesuit observatory founded at Manila in 1865 to find the laws of the typhoons and announce them in advance. Its first public warning went out on 7 July 1879; by 1880 the warnings were on the Hongkong cable, by 1884 they were an official state service with fourteen stations, and by 1898 a Royal Navy officer was telling Admiral Dewey to restore the cut cable or answer for the lives lost without them.