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Telegraphic longitude
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2019 May 14, 16:10 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2019 May 14, 16:10 -0700
On 2019-05-08 23:32, Dale Lichtblau wrote: > It appears that Wilkes had attempted "telegraphic longitude" a couple years before Alexander Bache's (he of the U.S. Coast Survey) similar effort in 1846, as recounted in the "Telegraphic longitude article" thread here on NavList beginning on 24 Dec 2003 by Paul Hirose. Much of the early Coast Survey telegraphic longitude work is described in their annual reports, online here: https://library.noaa.gov/Collections/Digital-Collections/USCGS-Annual-Reports The reports are indexed in the bibliography, available on the same page. A good deal of navigational content is there as well, since this organization was responsible for hydrographic surveys. In the 20th century, stuff that was formerly in the appendices of the annual reports was instead printed as "special publications". These are available on a different page at the same site. Some deal with geodetic astronomy.
