Author: Purnell F. Harrington
Publisher:
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Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Notes on Navigation and the Determination of Meridian Distances for the Use of Naval Cadets at the U.S. Naval Academy
Author: Purnell F. Harrington
Publisher:
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Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Sky and Ocean Joined
Author: Steven J. Dick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521815994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
As one of the oldest scientific institutions in the United States, the US Naval Observatory has a rich and colourful history. This volume is, first and foremost, a story of the relations between space, time and navigation, from the rise of the chronometer in the United States to the Global Positioning System of satellites, for which the Naval Observatory provides the time to a billionth of a second per day. It is a story of the history of technology, in the form of telescopes, lenses, detectors, calculators, clocks and computers over 170 years. It describes how one scientific institution under government and military patronage has contributed, through all the vagaries of history, to almost two centuries of unparalleled progress in astronomy. Sky and Ocean Joined will appeal to historians of science, technology, scientific institutions and American science, as well as astronomers, meteorologists and physicists.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521815994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
As one of the oldest scientific institutions in the United States, the US Naval Observatory has a rich and colourful history. This volume is, first and foremost, a story of the relations between space, time and navigation, from the rise of the chronometer in the United States to the Global Positioning System of satellites, for which the Naval Observatory provides the time to a billionth of a second per day. It is a story of the history of technology, in the form of telescopes, lenses, detectors, calculators, clocks and computers over 170 years. It describes how one scientific institution under government and military patronage has contributed, through all the vagaries of history, to almost two centuries of unparalleled progress in astronomy. Sky and Ocean Joined will appeal to historians of science, technology, scientific institutions and American science, as well as astronomers, meteorologists and physicists.
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Author: Smithsonian Institution
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Author:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Vols. for 1847-1963/64 include the Institution's Report of the Secretary.
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Vols. for 1847-1963/64 include the Institution's Report of the Secretary.
Selling the True Time
Author: Ian R. Bartky
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804738743
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This first comprehensive, scholarly history of timekeeping in America studies the transition from local to national timekeeping, a process that led to Standard Timeāthe worldwide system of timekeeping by which we all live. The book describes the contributions of the railroad industry, university astronomers, clockmakers, and civil and electrical engineers.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804738743
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This first comprehensive, scholarly history of timekeeping in America studies the transition from local to national timekeeping, a process that led to Standard Timeāthe worldwide system of timekeeping by which we all live. The book describes the contributions of the railroad industry, university astronomers, clockmakers, and civil and electrical engineers.
The American Catalogue
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
Catalogue. [With] Suppl. catalogue
Author: New Zealand gen. assembly, libr
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
CIS Index to U.S. Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1909: Navy Dept
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Dictionary of Admirals of the U.S. Navy: 1901-1918
Author: William B. Cogar
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This second volume of a definitive reference on U.S. Navy admirals includes personal information, military rank, career chronology, and photographs.
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This second volume of a definitive reference on U.S. Navy admirals includes personal information, military rank, career chronology, and photographs.