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03847cam a2200565 4500 |
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62a01e3c82129 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
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20240909204216.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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080923s2009 scuab b s001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2008042036 |
| 015 ## - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER |
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| National bibliography number |
GBA940593 |
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bnb |
| 016 7# - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC AGENCY CONTROL NUMBER |
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| Record control number |
015118097 |
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Uk |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781570038013 |
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(cloth ; |
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alk. paper) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1570038015 |
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(cloth ; |
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alk. paper) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)256770842 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
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DLC |
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BTCTA |
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GDC |
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OCLCO |
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NYHRS |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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n------ |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
HRSA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Stachurski, Richard, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1940-, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| Authority record control number or standard number |
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008065068 |
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7386 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Longitude by wire : |
| Remainder of title |
finding North America / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Richard Stachurski. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Columbia, S.C. : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
University of South Carolina Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[2009] |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
©2009 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
ix, 239 pages : |
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illustrations, maps ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
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still image |
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sti |
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rdacontent |
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cartographic image |
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cri |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Prologue : plundered corpses -- Only one hassler for the coast survey -- Station buttermilk -- Station head and horns -- The elusive longitude -- Real men in the way of science -- The lightning wire -- Astronomers without ears -- Following the lightning wire -- Finding North America -- Transatlantic hubris -- Heart's content -- Voodoo longitude -- Around the world in sixty years -- Epilogue : Hertzian waves. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
At the turn of the nineteenth century, even the most experienced mariners were still risking catastrophe when navigating the North American coastline, because they lacked accurate navigational charts. The various means available to chart makers of the era to measure longitude, both celestial and terrestrial, could be off by thousands of feet -- often deadly for ships. In 1807 the U. S. Coast Survey was created to map the coast accurately and reduce the costly and deadly toll of shipwrecks, a challenge that would take the better part of a century to overcome. This is the tale of discoveries made by American scientists as they worked to solve this life-threatening quandary and develop a precise method of measuring longitude. It recounts how the successful coupling of precision chronometers with the new electrical technology represented by Samuel Morse's telegraph produced the solution to the longitude problem. The use of the telegraph by scientists of the U.S Coast Survey to communicate time signals reduced the probable error in longitudinal measurement to less than ten feet. The "American method," as it was deemed, quickly revolutionized observational astronomy and every other branch of science that depended on recording the precise time of an event. |
| 562 ## - COPY AND VERSION IDENTIFICATION NOTE |
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| Materials specified |
31560000036000 |
| Copy identification |
17875 |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) |
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| Local note |
Monograph on finding the longitude of the North American Continent and the early history of transatlantic cables, illustrated |
| 648 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CHRONOLOGICAL TERM |
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| Chronological term |
1800-1899 |
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fast |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Cartography |
| Geographic subdivision |
North America |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Longitude |
| Geographic subdivision |
North America |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Cartography. |
| Source of heading or term |
fast |
| Authority record control number or standard number |
(OCoLC)fst00848025 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Longitude. |
| Source of heading or term |
fast |
| Authority record control number or standard number |
(OCoLC)fst01002403 |
| 9 (RLIN) |
6816 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Geographische Länge. |
| Source of heading or term |
idszbz |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
North America. |
| Source of heading or term |
fast |
| Authority record control number or standard number |
(OCoLC)fst01242475 |
| 653 #0 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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| Uncontrolled term |
Navigation |
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| Uncontrolled term |
USA |
| 653 #3 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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Navigation longitude time signals Transatlantic cable |
| 653 #0 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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| Uncontrolled term |
Timekeeper (general) |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
History. |
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fast |
| Authority record control number or standard number |
(OCoLC)fst01411628 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
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No |
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C0 |
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NYHRS |