Annual Report of the Secretary of War, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1877 |
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Page 121 - This chart of humidities enables studies to be made in reference to territorial sections, the difficulties attending the study of observations of this character being obviated to a very considerable extent by the inter-correction of stations among themselves, and by the great extent of the regions over which the readings are made simultaneously. In fields so great, purely local conditions in part disappear, or affect very slightly the general result.
Page 109 - ... for the conduct and good condition of the station itself. It has been considered necessary to make this description thus minute that it might be understood what duties are required of the non-commissioned officers and privates of the Signal...
Page 336 - Form 5, in duplicate, and the form handed to the operator in the telegraph office as soon as possible after the observation is taken, for transmission to . The signature of the operator must be obtained to both copies of each report, with the exact time of receipt by him. The operator will retain one copy of the report ; the observer will retain the other copy until Monday of the following week, when he will forward the retained copies by mail to this Office in the same envelope as Form JL...
Page 3 - Army intended to be instructed as acting signal officers, or to be temporarily instructors in geographical military departments for the field duties of the Signal Service, be here instructed before being put upon detached duty.
Page 109 - States, the different stations make, by order and in cipher, regular reports upon any subject under the attention of superior authorities. The enlisted men in charge of stations are responsible for the care, cleanliness, and good working of the instruments, the clearness of the records, the correctness and punctuality of reports, the display of signals or bulletins, and, in flue, for the conduct and good condition of the station itself.
Page 109 - ... industries in which the populations are engaged. In the cities upon the sea-coasts of the United States, or at the lake ports, the offices of the service are open for the comparison of instruments, the examination of their data, or to furnish whatever information may be practicable to captains of vessels or others concerned in shipping interests. At stations upon telegraphic lines in charge of or constructed by the service in pursuance and furtherance of its duties, the ordinary duties of telegraphing...
Page 108 - PM, are also taken and recorded at each station. A seventh and especial observation is taken and recorded at noon on each day. If, at this observation, such instrumental changes are noted as to cause anxiety, the fact is to be telegraphed to the central office at Washington. " An eighth observation is required to be taken at the exact hour of sunset at each station. This observation, embracing the appearance of the western sky, the direction of the wind, the amount of cloudiness, the readings of...
Page 122 - ... each one-tenth of an inch of mercury, by which the actual readings as reported are found to be above or below the computed normal. Such lines are traced for each period of eight and of twenty-four hours. This method of noting barometric pressures enables those taken and reported simultaneously from any number of different stations to be considered for purposes of study in relation to each other without reference, in each case, to the local questions of altitude, horary variations of pressure,...
Page 324 - The following particulars should be especially noted : the azimuth and altitude of each extremity and of the crown of any arch of light and the same data for any corona or glory that may be formed. When the observer is familiar with the names of the principal fixed stars, he may locate the arch or crown by reference to them ; but it is preferable trxat he should observe directly the altitude and azimuth.
Page 322 - Inking it from the telegraph office." After the reports are transferred to the bulletin the receiving sheets for each full report will be placed together and folded neatly in three folds parallel with the writing. Each morning the three reports of the preceding day will be secured together so as to form a single package. At the end of each week the seven daily packages of the week will be put up in a neat package and forwarded by mail to this Oftice, accompanied by the error sheet.