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	NOAA 200th Top Tens: Historical Events: Survey of the Coast
		On February 10, 1807 Congress authorized a “…survey to be taken of the coasts of the United States…”.
		The Coast and Geodetic Survey influenced formation of the American science community as well the early work of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the formation of the National Academy of Sciences with Bache as its first president.
		The Coast Survey was the first government agency to conduct systematic oceanographic studies of the Gulf Stream beginning in 1845.
	celebrating200years.noaa.gov /events/survey/welcome.html (922 words)

	United States Coast Guard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		United States Air Force master sergeants, as well as international students representing their respective maritime services, are also eligible to attend the CPO Academy.
		The order stated the Ensign would be "16 perpendicular stripes, alternate red and white, the union of the ensign to be the arms of the United States in a dark blue on a white field." (There were 16 states in the United States at the time).
		Coast Guard cutters and ships partially manned by Coast Guardsmen were used in the North African invasion of November 1942 Operation Torch) and the invasion of Sicily in 1943 (Operation Husky).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Coast_Guard (6594 words)

	BACHE, F. E. - LoveToKnow Article on BACHE, F. E. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He succeeded in impressing 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.
		By a skilful division of labor, and by the erection of numerous observing stations, the mapping out of the whole coast proceeded simultaneously under the eye of the general director, and in addition a vast mass of magnetic and meteorological observations was collected.
		The interior of the island is uninhabited and none of the dwellers on the coast are indigenous.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BACHE_F_E_.htm (1416 words)

	NOAA History - NOAA Legacy/Agency History
		The Coast Survey was authorized by Congress and President Thomas Jefferson in 1807.
		During the evolution of this organization, it became the first United States Government agency to collect masses of geographic information, develop means to process that information, and produce products for the safety and welfare of the citizens of our Nation.
		The Coast Survey was the first Government agency to develop mathematical models for predicting future states of geophysical phenomena such as tides, currents, and geomagnetic declination.
	www.history.noaa.gov /legacy/coastsurvey.html (388 words)

	Functions of the Coast Survey and the Coast and Geodetic Survey
		History of the projection tables of the Survey; the Clarke spheroid; formulae used in establishing tables; arrangement and explanation of the tables;graphic construction of polyconic projections for limited areas; conversion tables; lengths of degrees of the meridian; arcs of the parallel in meters; meridional arcs; coordinates of curvature.
		Directory for the Pacific Coast of the United States, with sailing directions, geographical positions, etc. (This document is a source document for those interested in the evolution of geographic and maritime knowledge on the western coast of North America.
		United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Line, 1893-1899; instructions to George Davidson; location of Colorado River terminus, 1893; Lake Tahoe terminus, 1893; field operations of 1894-'99; the corrected line; change of area; maps; statistics of work; appropriations, cost of survey, etc., description of the Califonia and Nevada oblique boundary; altitudes.
	www.lib.noaa.gov /edocs/function.html (9863 words)

	NOAA Ocean Explorer: History: Early Years (1807-1865)
		This chart of the Gulf Stream, compiled by the Coast Survey in 1860, was based on a series of systematic studies begun in 1845.
		On September 8, 1846, the captain and 10 crewmen of the Coast Survey Brig (Brigantine rigged vessel) Washington were swept overboard during a hurricane off the Virginia Capes.
		Oceanography was in its infancy and the Coast Survey was in the "delivery room," developing concepts that have stood the test of time.
	oceanexplorer.noaa.gov /history/early/early.html (813 words)

	A. D. Bache Collection, American Philosophical Society
		In 1821, Bache was admitted to the United States Military Academy at the age of 15, graduating first in his class four years later.
		In the years before the Civil War, the Coast Survey supported more scientists then any other institution in the country, and Bache and his colleagues saw the Survey as a means of gaining federal patronage for science.
		Coast Survey Station, near Lane's Brook, Me. Is sending Cheney maps and charts requested, comments on his duty on the Lighthouse Board.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/b/bachead.htm (2402 words)

	Biography of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		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.
		In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Hassler professorial position at the United States Military Academy at West Point on a recommendation from the Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin.
		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)

	Hassler
		- 1815-1817: Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey
		- 1832-1843: Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey
		He returned from England in 1815 and in 1816 a formal agreement was reached between the United States government and Professor Hassler appointing him the first Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey.
	www.dean.usma.edu /math/people/rickey/dms/DeptHeads/Hassler.html (1258 words)

	North Carolina State Map Collection at USHistoricalArchive.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Lindenkohl, A. [S.l.], U.S. Coast Survey, A.D. Bache, Supdt., 1865.
		Sketch of the coast of North Carolina from Oregon Inlet to Ocracoke Inlet.
		Showing parts of the states of Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and North Carolina; and also the coast line from Cape Henry to Fort Pickens, with the United States blockading fleet.
	ushistoricalarchive.com /statemaps/nc (1755 words)

	Voyage of the Paper Canoe, N. H. Bishop, 1878
		Though frequently lost in the labyrinth of creeks and marshes which skirt the southern coast of his country, the author's difficulties were greatly lessened by the use of the valuable and elaborate charts of the United States Coast Survey Bureau, to the faithful executers of which he desires to give unqualified and grateful praise.
		At the request of the "Board on behalf of the United States Executive Department" of the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, the paper canoe "Maria Theresa," and the cedar duck-boat "Centennial Republic," were deposited in the Smithsonian Department of the United States Government building, during the summer and fall of 1876.
		As the work is based on the results of actual surveys, the maps may be considered, for their size, the most complete of the United States coast ever presented to the public.
	www.rtpnet.org /robroy/paperc/intro.html (629 words)

	OML - Mapping the Republic: Conflicting Concepts
		The division of responsibility between the Federal and state governments followed a simple formula: if the states could undertake a given activity, it was their responsibility to do so, whether or not they chose to do so.
		The surveys did not prove to be effective, so in 1895 the Coast Survey disbanded the few still in operation.
		In 1925, in line with the ongoing realignment of state and Federal power, Congress changed the ground rules for topographical surveying: henceforth, the U.S. Geological Survey could initiate a survey of a state, although Federal-state cooperation was still preferred.
	www.usm.maine.edu /~maps/exhibit11/11-07.html (1107 words)

	United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Sketch Showinf the Progress of the Survey in Sections II & III - MAPS
		United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Sketch Showinf the Progress of the Survey in Sections II & III - MAPS
		United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Sketch Showinf the Progress of the Survey in Sections II & III
		This fl and white, antique coastal survey was made for the United States Coast Survey.
	www.rare-maps.com /details.cfm?type=maps&auto_key=1563159 (144 words)

	Hometown USA - Cities, Towns, Villages and Communities
		Virginia is one of the original 13 states of the United States that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution and is part of the South.
		The United States of America, also referred to as the United States, U.S.A., U.S., America, or the States, is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic coast in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west.
		The United States traces its national origin to the declaration by thirteen British colonies in 1776 that they were free and independent states.
	www.hometownusa.com (1769 words)

	Maps Waterways
		United States Geological Survey and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
		Sketch C Showing the Progress of the Survey in Section III From 1843 to1851 [Atlantic coast area from the Chesapeake Bay to the Delaware line.] United States Coast Survey.
		Preliminary Chart of Delaware and Chesapeake Bays and the Sea Coast from Cape Henlopen to Cape Charles.
	www.mdhs.org /explore/library/MapsWaterways.html (1208 words)

	Agassiz
		He was quickly accepted by the leading scientists of the New World and began a lifelong association with the United States Coast Survey and made many voyages in its steamers, conducting studies of plant and animal life in waters along the Atlantic and gulf shores of his adopted nation.
		On 30 December 1861, she was ordered to Sag Harbor at the end of Long Island, N.Y., and served as a revenue cutter at that port into the spring of 1862.
		She moved to Newport, R.I., on 10 October 1865; and, on 29 December of that year, was ordered to New York where she was transferred back to the Coast Survey.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/a4/agassiz.htm (471 words)

	Contents
		Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler and the United States Coast Survey
		The Southeast Coast - Virginia to Georgia 238
		The Southeast Coast - Virginia to Georgia 249
	www.lib.noaa.gov /edocs/CONTENTS.htm (223 words)

	Benjamin Apthorp Gould
		From 1852 to 1867 he was in charge of the longitude department of the United States coast survey; he developed and organized the service, was one of the first to determine longitudes by telegraphic means, and employed the Atlantic cable in 1866 to establish longitude-relations between Europe and America.
		From 1855 to 1859 he acted as director of the Dudley observatory at Albany, New York; and published in 1859 a discussion of the places and proper motions of circumpolar stars to be used as standards by the United States coast survey.
		Appointed in 1862 actuary to the United States sanitary commission, he issued in 1869 an important volume of Military and Anthropological Statistics.
	www.nndb.com /people/424/000050274 (289 words)

	USS Agassiz
		He was quickly accepted by the leading scientists of the New World and began a lifelong association with the United States Coast Survey and made many voyages in its steamers, conducting studies of plant and animal life in waters along the Atlantic and guIf shores of his adopted nation.
		Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, the United States Coast Survey ship Agassiz was transferred to the Revenue Cutter Service and took the place of Arago as a receiving ship in New York harbor.
		She moved to Newport R. I., on 10 October 1865, and, on 29 December of that year, was ordered to New York where she was transferred back to the Coast Survey.
	www.multied.com /Navy/CWNavy/Agassiz.html (467 words)

	NOAA 200th Top Tens: History Makers: Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler
		Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler: Founder of the United States Coast Survey
		Holding strong beliefs in the principles of democracy, Hassler immigrated to the United States, arriving at Philadelphia in October 1805.
		He was the pioneer in defending Coast Survey personnel against the spoils system and made the Coast Survey the first federal agency to adopt a merit system for hiring and promotion.
	celebrating200years.noaa.gov /historymakers/hassler/welcome.html (631 words)

	NMAH \| Surveying & Geodesy \| Geodetic Transit
		In the 1860s the United States Coast Survey began using these instruments, in connection with an electric telegraph, to determine longitudes.
		In the late 1870s, the Survey began using transits equipped with striding levels and micrometer eyepieces to determine latitude, in the same way that had been done with a zenith telescope.
		Schott, "Determination of Time by Means of the Transit Instrument," United States Coast Survey Annual Report (1866), Appendix No. 9.
	americanhistory.si.edu /collections/surveying/type.cfm?typeid=8 (118 words)

	Office of Coast Survey - United States Coast Pilot
		Issued in nine volumes, they contain supplemental information that is difficult to portray on a nautical chart.
		Topics in the Coast Pilot include channel descriptions, anchorages, bridge and cable clearances, currents, tide and water levels, prominent features, pilotage, towage, weather, ice conditions, wharf descriptions, dangers, routes, traffic separation schemes, small-craft facilities, and Federal regulations applicable to navigation.
		Office of Coast Survey, in conjunction with the NOAA Climate Database Modernization Program and the NOAA Central Library have been in the process of imaging historical Coast Pilots.
	chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov /nsd/coastpilot.htm (160 words)

	MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MAPS
		1819 Survey of the harbour of Baltimore and the Waters adjacent.
		1795 The States of Maryland and Delaware from the lateƒt surveys.
		A View of Part of the State of Maryland Exhibiting the different roads that are turnpiked or proposed to be turnpiked leading from Baltimore to the Western Country.
	www.mdhs.org /library/maplarg.html (3626 words)

	Office of Coast Survey - Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The United States Coast Pilot consists of a series of nautical books that cover a variety of information important to navigators of coastal and intracoastal waters and the Great Lakes.
		The Office of Coast Survey, Hydrographic Surveys Division Field Procedures Manual (FPM) is a consolidated source of current best practices and standard operating procedures for NOAA field units conducting, processing, and generating hydrographic survey field deliverables.
		This document provides the required technical specifications for hydrographic surveys undertaken either by NOAA field units or by organizations under contract to the Director, Coast Survey, National Ocean Service, NOAA, or the United States Department of Commerce.
	chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov /staff/Library.htm (724 words)

	University of Tennessee Map Library: What's New
		State of Louisiana : 1990 / produced by the United States Geological Survey.
		United States--east coast, Connecticut, New London Harbor and vicinity / Coast Survey.
		United States, Alaska--southeast coast, Ernest Sound--eastern passage and Zimovia Strait
	www.lib.utk.edu /cic/whatsnewa.htm (5691 words)

	New Maps in the Mary Ansari Map Library, January - February 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		United States, Alaska--Aleutian Islands, Rat Islands, Semisopochnoi I. to Buldir I./ 14th ed., Jul./04.
		United States, Alaska--Arctic coast, McClure and Stockton islands and vicinity/ 7th ed., Oct./04.
		United States, Alaska--south coast, Kodiak Island, Cape Ikolik to Cape Kuliuk/ 10th ed., Oct./04.
	www.delamare.unr.edu /newmaps/maps_0105.html (3525 words)

	United States Coast Survey Nautical Charts, Reproductions, Mid 1800, Annapolis Harbor, Cape Fear River, Chesapeake Bay, ...
		The United States Coast Survey produced many navigational charts in the mid 1800's.
		The Map Shack of Wakefield, Greater Boston MA area carries Reproductions of the United States Coast Survey Nautical Charts.
		These United States Coast Survey Nautical Charts were both historic and a sample of nautical art produced in the 1800s.
	www.baldwinmapshack.com /coastal.htm (274 words)

	Georgia Civil War Map Collection at USHistoricalArchive.com
		A correct map of Pensacola Bay showing topography of the coast, Fort Pickens, U.S. Navy Yard, and all other fortifications from the latest Government surveys.
		Sketch of Pensacola Navy Yard and Fort Pickens from U.S. coast surveys.
		Compiled and published at the United States Coast Survey Office, A. Bache, Superintendent.
	ushistoricalarchive.com /civilwar/fl (345 words)

	Record Unit 7068 - Robert Stanton Avery Papers, 1855-1894
		Avery taught school in the South, and in 1853 joined the United States Coast Survey (USCS) where he became chief of the Tidal Division.
		His duties included receiving observer reports taken from tide gauges established on the coasts of the United States and computing tide estimates based on the data received.
		Bache, Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, from R. Avery, December 23, 1859
	www.si.edu /archives/archives/findingaids/FARU7068.htm (906 words)

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