Robert Saint George Dy'renforth was an American soldier and lawyer.
Background
He was born in Chicago, graduated at Breslau in 1861, and served in the United States Army (1861–66) as major of volunteer cavalry, assistant inspector general and signal officer in the Department of the Missouri, and was several times brevetted.
Career
In 1866 he was correspondent of the Chicago Post and Times during the war between Austria and Prussia. He studied mechanical engineering at Heidelberg in 1866-69. He worked in the U. S. Patent Office (1871–85), resigned from there in 1885 and practiced as a patent and corporation lawyer.
Robert Saint George Dyrenforth became popularly known as while carrying out a series of experiments for the government, using violent explosions in Texas to condense water vapor into rain.