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003			OCoLC
005			20240909204216.0
008			080923s2009 scuab b s001 0 eng
010			_a 2008042036
015			_aGBA940593 _2bnb
016	7		_a015118097 _2Uk
020			_a9781570038013 _q(cloth ; _qalk. paper)
020			_a1570038015 _q(cloth ; _qalk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)256770842
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dBTCTA _dYDXCP _dUKM _dYDX _dC#P _dCDX _dBWX _dTTS _dMOF _dMIX _dOCLCF _dOCLCQ _dCHVBK _dOCLCQ _dOCL _dXFH _dUKMGB _dGDC _dOCLCO _dNYHRS
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100	1		_aStachurski, Richard, _d1940-, _eauthor. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008065068 _97386
245	1	0	_aLongitude by wire : _bfinding North America / _cRichard Stachurski.
264		1	_aColumbia, S.C. : _bUniversity of South Carolina Press, _c[2009]
264		4	_c©2009
300			_aix, 239 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
336			_acartographic image _bcri _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and index.
505	0		_aPrologue : 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			_aAt 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			_331560000036000 _b17875
590			_aMonograph on finding the longitude of the North American Continent and the early history of transatlantic cables, illustrated
648		7	_a1800-1899 _2fast
650		0	_aCartography _zNorth America _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aLongitude _zNorth America _xHistory _y19th century.
650		7	_aCartography. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00848025
650		7	_aLongitude. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01002403 _96816
650		7	_aGeographische Länge. _2idszbz
651		7	_aNorth America. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01242475
653		0	_aNavigation
653		5	_aUSA
653		3	_aNavigation longitude time signals Transatlantic cable
653		0	_aTimekeeper (general)
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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