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A. D. Bache Alaska Appen Appendix Assistant Atlantic Coast Atlantic Local Coast azimuth base line Benjamin Peirce C. A. Schott C. S. Peirce Cape Catalogue Chart corrections Coast and Geodetic Coast Pilot comparison computation Congress currents determination diagram difference of longitude diurnal E. D. Preston ending June 30 F. R. Hassler GEODESY-Continued Geodetic Survey George Davidson Girard College Government Printing Office Gulf Stream Harbor House Ex hydrographic illustrations inequality Key West latitude longitude magnetic declination meridian method metre Mitchell Notice to Mariners Number of pages O. H. Tittmann observations Observatory octavo Pacific coast Peirce Pocomoke Sound quarto reduction second session Secretary secular variation Senate Ex Sketch solar spirit leveling standard of weights standard weights stations Subassistant Subject and author Superintendent telegraphic theodolite third session tidal Tide tables tion transit Treasury transmitting triangulation U. S. Coast Survey United States Coast Washington weights and measures York
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Página 5 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States...
Página 5 - Principal Documents Relating to the Survey of the Coast of the United States since 1816, published by FR Hassler, Superintendent of the Survey.
Página 10 - Let the standard of measure, then, be a uniform cylindrical rod of iron, of such length as, in latitude 45°, in the level of the ocean, and in a cellar, or other place, the temperature of which does not vary through the year, shall perform its vibrations in small and equal arcs, in one second of mean time.
Página 13 - Union, or such person as he may appoint, for the use of the States respectively, to the end that a uniform standard of weights and...
Página 13 - The Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures of the House of Representatives is again considering the subject of the adoption of the metric system...
Página 26 - On the determination of an azimuth from micrometric observations of a close circumpolar star near elongation by means of a meridian transit, or by means of a theodolite with eyepiece micrometer.
Página 10 - Recommends that models of the yard, bushel, and pound, conforming to those in most common use, be made under the direction of a commission to be selected by the President, and which, if satisfactory to Congress, shall be declared the standard weights and measures of the United States.
Página 11 - States, and although totally unfit for such purpose it has since remained the standard for coinage purposes. " In 1830 the Secretary of the Treasury was directed to cause a comparison to be made of the standards of weight and measure used at the principal customhouses, as a result of which large discrepancies were disclosed in the weights and measures in use. The Treasury...
Página 13 - Reports from the Secretary of the Treasury, of scientific investigations in relation to sugar and hydrometers, made, under the superintendence of Prof.
Página 80 - Session, House of Representatives Misc. Doc. no. 5. Surveys of the Territories. Letter from the Acting President of the National Academy of Sciences, transmitting a report on the surveys of the Territories. Ordered printed, December 3, 1878. 8°. Pp. 1-27. Forty-seventh Congress, 2d Session. Senate Misc. Doc. no. 51. National Academy of Sciences. Investigation of the scientific and economic relations of the sorghum sugar industry, being a report made in response to a request from the Hon.