Binnick's Languages and Linguistics Blog

Reading How Weather Works, I came upon this very sad anecdote (p. 74):

Between 1923 and 1925, Japanese scientist Wasaburo Oishi recorded unusually strong high-level winds around Mount Fuji, tracking
balloons as they moved rapidly
away once they reached the
upper levels of the troposphere.
Oishi had discovered a jet stream,
but the news did not reach the wider world because, unusually, he published his findings in the Esperanto language.

Esperanto was designed to help us communicate. It is depressing to run across a case where it prevented communication.