Download or read book Centennial Celebration of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey April 5 and 6 1916 Washington D C written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Centennial Celebration of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey April 5 and 6 1916 written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Centennial Celebration of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey April 5 And 6 1916 written by U. S. Coast And Geodetic Survey and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...standard datum for geodetic operations in Canada and Mexico, it became a matter of international importance, and consequently its designation was changed by the Survey in 1913 to that of the " North American datum." Plans are now under way for carrying the primary triangulation of the United States and Canada to the Yukon, and the prediction is here made that eventually the 50 miles which separate Alaska from Siberia will be spanned and a junction be effected with the great systems of Asia, Europe, and Africa. Then, with the extension from Mexico through Central and South America, the data will be available for a " world datum," and the final word will l1ave been said in the geodetic work of the earth. BASE-LINE MEASUREMENTS Closely related to, and forming an integral part of the triangulation executed by the Coast and Geodetic Survey, is the measurement of the base lines for controlling the lengths in triangulation. In this work the Survey has furnished much of interest and of value to the geodesist. Ever has it kept keenly before it the necessity for refined measurements, and many valuable devices to accomplish this desired result have been added by members of the force. BASE BARS The Duplex bars, invented by Assistant William Eimbeck and constructed by E. G. Fischer, are probably the best form of base bars ever devised, and gave a very high degree of precision; but they were soon replaced by the tape as a form of base apparatus. The only bar used in the United States, and probably in the world, which gives entire satisfaction, so far as accuracy is concerned, is the iced bar, designed by President R. S. Woodward, of the Carnegie Institution, when an assistant in the Survey. Owing to the great cost per kilometer...

Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Printing Showing the Condition of the Public Printing and Binding written by United States. Government Printing Office and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Bibliography of Alaskan Literature 1724 1924 written by James Wickersham and published by Cordova, Alaska : Cordova daily times print. This book was released on 1927 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the titles of all histories, travels, voyages, newspapers, periodicals, public documents, etc., printed in English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, etc., relating to, descriptive of, or published in Russian America or Alaska, from 1724 to and including 1924.

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Download or read book Banquet in Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Organization of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Thursday Evening April 6th 1916 New Willard Washington D C written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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