Professional papers from Coast and Geodetic Survey reports / [compiled by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Contributor:

U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Weights and measures--United States--Standards.

Weights and measures.

Surveying.

Geodesy.

United States.

Geodesy--United States.

Geodesy--United States--Instruments.

Surveying--United States.

United States--Surveys.

Surveys.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations, plates ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : [The Survey], [1853-1876]

Contents:

Description of an apparatus for measuring secondary base-lines

Solution of the "three point problem" by determining the point of intersection of a side of the given triangle with a line from the opposite point to the unknown point / A. Linderkohl

Determination of weights to be given to observations for determining time with portable transit-instruments, recorded by the chronographic method / Charles A. Schott

Measurement of a primary base-line on Peach-tree ridge, near Atlanta, Georgia, in 1872 and 1873 / C. O. Boutelle

Description of the compensation base-apparatus of the United States Coast Survey / E. B. Hunt

On the use of the zenith-telescope for observations of time / J. E. Hilgard

Note on intervisibility of stations / J. E. Hilgard

A list of stars for observations of latitude

On the secular change of magnetic declination in the United States and other parts of North America: new discussion / Charles A. Schott

A new system of binary arithmetic / Benjamin Peirce

Determination of time by means of the transit-instrument / C. A. Schott

Determination of weights to be given to observations recorded by the chronographic method for determining time with portable transit-instruments / Charles A. Schott

Determination of latitude by means of the zenith-telescope / C. A. Schott

Determination of the astronomical azimuth of a direction / C. A. Schott

Report on Mount Saint Elias, Mount Fairweather, and some of the adjacent mountains / William H. Dall.

Notes:

Binder's title.

Collection of appendices from the United States Coast Survey reports, 1853-1876.

Contains:

Linderkohl, L. Solution of the "three point problem" by determining the point of intersection of a side of the given triangle with a line from the opposite point to the unknown point.

Schott, Charles A. (Charles Anthony), 1826-1901. Determination of weights to be given to observations for determining time with portable transit-instruments, recorded by the chronographic method.

Boutelle, C. O. (Charles Otis). Measurement of a primary base-line on Peach-tree ridge, near Atlanta, Georgia, in 1872 and 1873.

Hunt, E. B. Description of the compensation base-apparatus of the United States Coast Survey.

Hilgard, J. E. (Julius Erasmus), 1825-1891. On the use of the zenith-telescope for observations of time.

Hilgard, J. E. (Julius Erasmus), 1825-1891. Note on intervisibility of stations.

Schott, Charles A. (Charles Anthony), 1826-1901. On the secular change of magnetic declination in the United States and other parts of North America: new discussion.

Peirce, Benjamin Mills, 1844- A new system of binary arithmetic.

Schott, Charles A. (Charles Anthony), 1826-1901. Determination of time by means of the transit-instrument.

Schott, Charles A. (Charles Anthony), 1826-1901. Determination of weights to be given to observations recorded by the chronographic method for determining time with portable transit-instruments.

Schott, Charles A. (Charles Anthony), 1826-1901. Determination of latitude by means of the zenith-telescope.

Schott, Charles A. (Charles Anthony), 1826-1901. Determination of the astronomical azimuth of a direction.

Dall, William H. Report on Mount Saint Elias, Mount Fairweather, and some of the adjacent mountains.

OCLC:

38505822