Politics, Science and Government Mapping in the United States, 1800 to 1925University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1985 - 248 pages |
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... foundations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . There were six main Federal survey organizations that were active in the United States in the hundred years after 1796. These were , in chronological order of their foundation ...
... foundations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . There were six main Federal survey organizations that were active in the United States in the hundred years after 1796. These were , in chronological order of their foundation ...
Page 64
... foundation of a topographical survey : Thus , Prof. J. Materials for a permanent geological map of the State have been collected during the course of this Survey , but we have no good topographical base for such a map . The best map of ...
... foundation of a topographical survey : Thus , Prof. J. Materials for a permanent geological map of the State have been collected during the course of this Survey , but we have no good topographical base for such a map . The best map of ...
Page 89
... foundation . The survey will be examined in the same way as the genre as a whole has been : the reasons for and manner of its foundation ; its development and interaction with regular Coast Survey personnel ; and , the survey's ...
... foundation . The survey will be examined in the same way as the genre as a whole has been : the reasons for and manner of its foundation ; its development and interaction with regular Coast Survey personnel ; and , the survey's ...
Contents
would like to thank my advisor Professor David Woodward | 10 |
1 | 30 |
1 Numbers of State Geological Surveys | 82 |
Common terms and phrases
Academy of Sciences ACIR Allison Commission American Science appropriations Benjamin Peirce Boutelle Civil Coast and Geodetic Coast Survey Coast Survey personnel Congress Congressional Contemporary Federalism cooperative federalism Daniels Davies dual federalism Dupree economic Elazar Federal Government Federal Power Federal science Federal Surveying fiscal funding geodesy Geodetic Survey Geographical geologists Government Printing Office Growth of Federal Hampshire Hassler History Hunter Dupree idem Jersey Kevles Land Office Lapham Papers legislatures levels of government mapping activities mapping agencies mapping organizations Minerals and Lands National Academy National Mapping Policy nineteenth century North American Datum note 12 note 25 note 30 Ordnance Survey Pennsylvania Physicists primary triangulation Prof Public Domain Pure Science Ideal Rabbitt Science in America Science in Federal Science in Society scientists Statutes at Large systematic survey topographic mapping topographical survey triangulation U.S. Geological Survey United University Press USCGS Annual Report USCGS Expenditures Washington Washington D.C. Wheeler Survey Wisconsin