Article ID: CBB000650111

Morse's Register and the American Method (2002)

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Description On a method of using telegraphy for longitude measurements.


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Authors & Contributors
Gillespie, Sarah
Morfouli, Meropi
John, Richard R.
Belteki, Daniel
Shcheglov, Dmitry A.
Schrimpf, Andreas
Journals
British Journal for the History of Science
Science in Context
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Journal for the History of Arabic Science
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
IEEE Communications Magazine
Publishers
Professional Surveyors Publishing Co.
Presses Universitaires de Rennes
Praeger Publishers
Naval Institute Press
Brill
New York, City University of
Concepts
Longitude and latitude
Geodesy
Astronomy
Geography
Navigation
Telegraphs; telephones
People
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
Conté, Nicolas-Jacques
Gilliss, James Melville
Gerling, Christian Ludwig
Vail, Alfred Lewis
Ptolemy, Claudius
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Ancient
17th century
Places
United States
France
Greenwich (England)
South America
North America
Germany
Institutions
United States. Patent Office
United States Naval Observatory
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Institute for the History of Electricity
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