The Transfer of the United States Weather Service to a Civil Bureau: Historic Sketch, Replies to Objections Against the Transfer, Present Need of Transfer, Opinions of Scientific Men, Opinions of the Press, SupplementAlfred Mudge & Son, 1889 - 30 páginas |
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Página 12 - War be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent, and at other points in the States and Territories of the United States, and for giving notice on the northern lakes and on the sea-coast, by magnetic telegraph and marine signals, of the approach and force of storms.
Página 11 - For expenses of storm signals announcing the probable approach and force of storms throughout the United States, for the benefit of commerce and agriculture...
Página 3 - The present time appears to be peculiarly auspicious for commencing an enterprise of the proposed kind. The citizens of the United States are now scattered over every part of the southern and western portion of...
Página 3 - We hope in the course of another year to make such an arrangement with the telegraph lines as to be able to give warnings on the eastern coast of the approach of storms, since the investigations which have Ы'сп made at the Institution fully indicate the fact that as a general rule the storms of our latitude pursue a definite course.
Página 3 - We are indebted to the National Telegraph Line for a series of observations from New Orleans to New York and as far westward as Cincinnati, which have been published in the Evening Star of this city.
Página 3 - Another subject of research mentioned in the programme, and which has been urged upon the immediate attention of the institution, is that of an extensive system of meteorological observations, particularly with reference to the phenomena of American storms. Of late years, in our country, more additions have been. made to meteorology than to any other branch of physical science. Several important generalizations have been arrived at, and definite theories proposed, which now enable us to direct our...
Página 3 - Successful applications have been made to the presidents of a number of telegraph lines to allow us at a certain period of the day the use of the wires for the transmission of meteorological intelligence as soon as they [certain instruments, &c.,] are completed, the transmission of observations will commence.
Página 9 - ... twelve hundred and seven of the Revised Statutes, which are hereby amended so as to be applicable to and to provide for the promotion of the lieutenants of the Signal Corps in the same manner as they now apply to the Corps of Engineers and the Ordnance Corps ; and all vacancies which may hereafter exist in the grade of first lieutenant in the Signal Corps shall be filled by transfer from the line of the Army, after competitive examination and recommendation by a board of officers of the Signal...
Página 3 - The extended lines of telegraph will furnish a ready means of warning the more northern and eastern observers to be on the watch for the first appearance of an advancing storm.
Página 28 - ... $56,000 ; Russia, $65,000; Austria, $10,000; Switzerland, $6,000; France, $40,000. This estimate for France does not include the cost of observations made at a few astronomical observatories and mountain stations, which may perhaps increase the total amount expended by France to $60,000. It is thus seen that the amount of money appropriated for its weather service by the United States is ten times greater than that of any country in the world, and is greater than the amount appropriated by all...