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	U.S. National Geodetic Survey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hassler sail for Europe to obtain the proper instruments.
		Hassler's plans were to employ triangulation to establish his system.
		Hassler was re-appointed as the superintendent, and field work was resumed in April, 1833.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._Coast_and_Geodetic_Survey (428 words)

	HASSLER1
		Ferdinand Hassler was born on the eve of the American Revolution on October 7, 1770, in the town of Aarau, Switzerland.
		Hassler was a native of France, and it is not difficult to imagine that some of the impetus for an eight-month sojourn to Paris was generated by her desires as well as the health of the family.
		Hassler, seemingly oblivious to upcoming storm clouds, proceeded into the field on April 16, 1817, and conducted a reconnaissance for a baseline in the vicinity of the Palisades on the west shore of the Hudson River.
	www.lib.noaa.gov /edocs/HASSLER1.htm (7187 words)

	NOAA History - NOAA Legacy/Historic Documents - Upon the principles of the determination of salaries or compensations ...
		Hassler made the point that to attract and retain qualified individuals for government service, adequate remuneration must be paid to assure competent, honorable public servants.
		Hassler pointed out that this system was detrimental to the smooth operation of the government, had vast potential for corruption and mismanagement, and also had an adverse effect on maintaining economical government services.
		Ferdinand Hassler was successful in attaining most of his goals in this battle and also managed to protect his force of scientists and engineers from the abuses of the spoils system.
	www.history.noaa.gov /legacy/hasslerpay.html (1563 words)

	Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (1770-1843) was born in Aarau, Switzerland.
		Hassler was appointed the superintendent of the Survey on August 9, 1832, and he served in that post until November 20, 1843.
		Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler's granddaugter, Mary Caroline Hassler Newcomb, married the much noted astronomer and mathematician Simon Newcomb.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Ferdinand_Rudolph_Hassler (470 words)

	Biography of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The first superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler was a Swiss-born and educated mathematician who came to the United States in 1805.
		Hassler tried his hand at farming in upstate New York, and then traveled to Richmond to privately tutor the children of wealthy families.
		In 1830, President Andrew Jackson appointed Hassler as the gauger for the United States, determining the standards for weights and measures for the country.
	www.vcdh.virginia.edu /lewisandclark/biddle/biographies_html/hassler.html (529 words)

	Room 2 - The Hassler Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler was appointed the first Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast by President Madison in 1816.
		Born in Aarau, Switzerland in 1770, Hassler emigrated to the United States in 1805.
		In 1807, he responded to a request made by the American Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin, for proposals to survey the coast of the United States.
	museum.nist.gov /exhibits/ex1/room2.html (110 words)

	Hassler
		Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler was born in the town of Aarau, in the northern (German) part of Switzerland on 7 October 1770.
		Hassler was unable to work under French control and in 1805 he emigrated with his family to the United States.
		Hassler received nothing but praise and support for his methods and techniques from some of the leading scientists of the period.
	www.dean.usma.edu /math/people/rickey/dms/DeptHeads/Hassler.html (1258 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Hassler Ferdinand Rudolph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph (1770-1843), first superintendent of the United States Coast Survey (now the Office of the Coast Survey), born in Aarau,...
		He was born Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé in New York City.
		Rudolph, Wilma Glodean (1940-1994), American track-and-field athlete, who was the first American woman to win three track-and-field gold medals at a...
	encarta.msn.com /Hassler_Ferdinand_Rudolph.html (127 words)

	Hassler's Dilemmas
		Hassler was born in Switzerland where, as a youth in Bern, he studied mathematics, astronomy, and surveying.
		Hassler's work with Lewis and Clark's celestial observations was intermittent and perfunctory, which made it unproductive in the long run.
		Hassler's writing is sometimes difficult to understand, owing to his somewhat limited facility with the English language.
	www.lewis-clark.org /content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=2501 (2012 words)

	Ancestry Message Boards - Message [ Hassler ]
		Family lore has it that we were descended from Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, of Aarau, Switzerland, who emigrated to US in 1805 and became first Superintendent of the Geodetic Society under Hamilton.
		The only information I have on Rudolph Ferdinand is that he was born 1816 in Zurich, Switzerland and died in 1870 in Washington, D.C. He moved to D.C. from New York City.
		I'd also be interested if anyone had the names of the children of the "famous" Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler - had about 6 sons, a Charles, John and others, plus a daughter or two.
	boards.ancestry.com /mbexec?htx=message&r=an&p=surnames.Hassler&m=113 (209 words)

	Ferdinand Quenisset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé : Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé
		Ferdinand VII of Spain : Ferdinand VII of Spain
		Ferdinand VI of Spain : Ferdinand VI of Spain
	www.askmore.net /w/en/054434.htm (96 words)

	Room 2 - The Hassler Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The first years of Hassler's long involvement with the nascent scientific enterprise of the United States Government were spent in Europe, procuring instruments and books for the Survey.
		Two years previously, Hassler had been asked by the President to compare the weights and measures in use at the principal custom-houses, and now, in 1832, the Coast Survey and the Nation's metrological work were combined in the person of Hassler.
		Congress was pleased, and in 1836, it formalized Hassler's standards work by creating the Office of Weights and Measures in the Coast Survey and by directing Hassler to construct standards for the states as well.
	museum.nist.gov /exhibits/ex1/room2b.html (299 words)

	A history of weights and measures in the United States from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Two years previously, Hassler had been asked by the President to compare the weights and measures in use at the principal customhouses, and now, in 1832, the Coast Survey and the Nation's metrological work were combined in the person of Hassler.
		Finding large discrepancies in the weights and measures in use, Hassler obtained the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury to construct standards of length, mass, and capacity for distribution to the customhouses.
		Under Hassler and his successors' supervision and with the authority of the 1836 joint resolution, OWM continued to construct troy and avoirdupois weights, yard measures, half bushels, gallons, half-gallons, quarts, pints, and half-pints.
	home.earthlink.net /~sondybeamer/homework/algebra/micrometer/history.htm (2233 words)

	Johann Georg Tralles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1798 he served as the Swiss representative to the French metric convocation, and was a member of its committee on weights and measures.
		An iron "committee" meter, a duplicate of the prototype archive meter, was then given as a gift to Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler.
		From 1803 until 1805 these two men worked together on a topological survey of the Canton of Bern.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johann_Georg_Tralles (203 words)

	Hassler-main
		HASSLER, Ferdinand Rudolph, Comparison of Weights and Measures of Length and Capacity, reported to the Senate of the United States, by the Treasury Department in 1832.
		Hassler in Newark N.J. to John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War.
		Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (1770-1843), American geodesist and mathematician, was superintendent of the United States Coast Survey.
	www.dean.usma.edu /departments/math/people/rickey/dms/DeptHeads/Hassler-main.html (425 words)

	Department of Weights and Measures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The execution of this directive was assigned by the Secretary of the Treasury of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, a man of great ability and energy; during the succeeding decade Hassler played a most important part in fixing the standards of weight and measure of the United States.
		Hassler, the necessary standards, as well as weights and measures, with all exactness that the present advanced state of science and the arts will afford.
		The Hassler Era produced a sequence of events that culminated in the first definite congressional action directed at establishing uniform measurement in the United States.
	www.weights.az.gov /history.htm (2639 words)

	Carl Friedrich Gauss
		While still a teenager, he propounded the theory of least squares, demonstrated a solution to the age-old problem of dividing a circle into 17 parts, and made important mathematical discoveries which he was too shy to publish and entrusted only to his diary.
		His genius came to the attention of Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, who undertook to finance his education and, in the process, became his lifelong patron and friend.
		The heliotrope appears in a biography of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, who helped establish the U. Coast Survey, titled The Chequered Career of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, written by Florian Cajori.
	www.surveyhistory.org /carl_friedric.htm (988 words)

	Precision Measurement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		However, if the objects vary by several thousandths (or hundredths, or ten thousandths) of an inch then combining several to get a measurement would be an inaccurate way to measure things, especially regarding the discrepant tendencies of my micrometer.
		A Swiss man named Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler created the first definite set of American standards around 1830.
		Congress approved of Hassler’s standards in 1836 by creating the Office of Weights and Measures to enforce their regulations.
	home.earthlink.net /%7Esondybeamer/homework/algebra/micrometer/precision_measurement.htm (3231 words)

	Simple Technicalendar Record Display (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (1770-1843) will be celebrated by NIST, NOAA, and the Hassler family in a ceremony that will take place in the Green Auditorium, Thursday, December 2, 2004, from 1:30 p.m to 3:00 p.m.
		Hassler, called the forefather of NIST, was the first Superintendent of the Department of Treasury’s Office of Weights and Measures (now NIST Metrology) and also the first Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey (now a part of NOAA).
		The tablet, which includes an engraved tribute to Hassler and portrait relief, was previously at the Hassler gravesite in Philadelphia where a new tablet has been erected.
	ois.nist.gov /techcal/search/display.cfm?uniqueID=101632Al0.75186685 (144 words)

	Polyconic Projections
		The origins of the polyconic projection are a little obscure, but most researchers credit Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler with developing the first comprehensive description of this projection around 1820.
		Hassler was a Swiss scientist who became famous for conducting the first complete and accurate survey of the coast of the United States.
		He also founded what is now known as the U.S. Coast Survey Office, and in general instilled a tradition of scientific rigor into the U.S. government's efforts to measure quantities and conduct surveys.
	www.cnr.colostate.edu /class_info/nr502/lg2/projection_descriptions/polyconic.html (653 words)

	Alexander Dallas Bache - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abroad, he examined European systems of education and, on his return, published a very valuable report.
		In 1843, on the death of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, he was appointed superintendent of the United States coast survey.
		He succeeded in impressing the United States Congress with a sense of the great value of this work and by means of the liberal aid it granted, he carried out a singularly comprehensive plan with great ability and most satisfactory results.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Dallas_Bache (258 words)

	Uncle Sam's Funhouse (washingtonpost.com)
		In the early 1830s Congress asked Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, a Swiss engineer who had been the first superintendent of the Treasury Department's Coastal Survey, to study the various standards in use and try to come up with a system.
		Hassler suggested that the U.S. gallon be based on the English wine gallon of 1703.
		Though Congress could not bring itself to make Hassler's measures legal, it gave them moral support via joint resolution in 1836 and ordered copies distributed to the states, thereby establishing the country's first, unofficial, system of standards.
	www.lehigh.edu /~jph7/website/PictureGallery/A17404-2001Mar30.html (3728 words)

	Standards Alumni Association December 2004 Newsletter
		Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler V reviewed Hassler's life from his experiences as a young surveyor in Switzerland, through his late career that found him still actively working in the field at the age of 70.
		Hassler's instruments were preserved and passed down through the family, traveling time and distance before being loaned to NIST for the NIST Museum.
		Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, a Swiss immigrant in 1805, was appointed by President Jefferson to direct the Survey of the Coast in 1807 and in 1830 became the first Superintendent of the Office of Weights under President Jackson.
	www.nist.gov /director/saa/dec04_newsletter.htm (14085 words)

	NMAH \| Surveying & Geodesy \| Repeating Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is one of two double repeating circles that Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, the first Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, ordered from Edward Troughton in London in 1812, and that was shipped in 1815.
		The large circle may be angled from vertical to horizontal to the opposite vertical position.
		Ref: F. Hassler, "Papers on Various Subjects Connected with the Survey of the Coast of the United States," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 2 (1825): 232-420, on 315-320 and pl. VII.
	americanhistory.si.edu /collections/surveying/object.cfm?recordnumber=747480 (167 words)

	Aquariu.NET Documentation
		World War I gave this projection new life, making it the standard projection for intermediate - and large-scale maps of regions in midlatitudes for which the transverse Mercator is not used.
		The polyconic was applied as a specific projection in 1853 by Edward Bissell Hunt of the U.S. Coast Survey to one first proposed by Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (Swiss-born, 1770-1843).
		The polyconic projection of Hassler is simultaneously universal for a given figure of the earth (sphere or ellipsoid), simply drawn, even for the ellipsoid, and employs useful scale characteristics.
	www.mgaqua.net /AquaDoc/Projections/Projections_Conic.aspx (474 words)

	Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, Inc., The: Jefferson and the Art of Roofing
		TJ to Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, 3 December 1825, DLC.
		Although the terras "zigzag" roof still exists, there must have been a problem in the nineteenth century when it was encapsulated with a hipped roof.
		TJ to Ferdinand Hassler, 3 December 1825, DLC.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3983/is_200503/ai_n13461988/pg_4 (982 words)

	Hassler Family Genealogy Forum
		Hasslers in Berks and Lancaster Counties - Christopher Caltagirone 11/21/04
		Re: Hasslers in Berks and Lancaster Counties - Jerry Hassler 2/21/05
		Re: Hassler, Evansville, IN - Timothy Hart 3/11/04
	www.genforum.com /hassler (2178 words)

	Polyconic Projection (Mapping Toolbox) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		By definition, this projection has no standard parallels, since every parallel is a standard parallel.
		This projection was apparently originated about 1820 by Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler.
		It is also known as the American Polyconic and the Ordinary Polyconic projection.
	web.unbc.ca /~robert/matlab/toolbox/map/polyconicprojection.html (165 words)

	McGee-Brief Biography
		Anita Newcomb was born on 4 November 1864 in Washington, D.C., to Simon and Mary Caroline (Hassler) Newcomb.
		Mary Caroline (Hassler), also a strong intellectual influence, was a granddaughter of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, founder and first superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.
		Young Anita was educated in private schools in Washington, D.C. She later traveled for three years in Europe during which time she took courses at Newham College in Cambridge and at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
	history.amedd.army.mil /ameddcorp/armynurse/McGeeWHMSpecial/McGee-Brief_Biography.html (1832 words)

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