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50-inch precision camera used in chart making. In: The Coast and GeodeticSurvey: Its Products and Services, 1965. 57 pp.
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Tracings of accelerograph records of Long Beach earthquake of March 10, 1933. In:Earth Motions in the Vicinity of a Fault Slip by Nicholas Heck and Frank Neumann, 1942. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Vol. 53, pp. 179-194.
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Apparatus for expanding acceleration curves prior to integration. In:Earth Motions in the Vicinity of a Fault Slip by Nicholas Heck and Frank Neumann, 1942. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Vol. 53, pp. 179-194.
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Resultant horizontal motion at Los Angeles during first 15 seconds of Long Beach earthquake of March 10, 1933. In:Earth Motions in the Vicinity of a Fault Slip by Nicholas Heck and Frank Neumann, 1942. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America,
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Artists conception USC&GS; OCEANOGRAPHER, largest vessel designed foroceanographic studies in the United States at that time.
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A theodolite magnetometer of Carnegie Institution Department of TerrestrialMagnetism design.
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A contour map presenting the secular change in the vertical intensity of theEarth's magnetic field from 1885 to 1922.
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Chart showing location of land stations and cruises used in mapping the Earth'smagnetic field.
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State of advancement of hydrographic surveys of the world, 1904, by George W.Littlehales of the Naval Hydrographic Office. In: Nautical Charts by George Rockwell Putnam, 1908. 162 pp.
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Coast Survey chart showing density of soundings from original survey used to to construct nautical chart. Comparing survey of Ponce Harbor, PuertoRico to published chart of same. In: Nautical Charts by George Rockwell Putnam, 1908. 162 pp.
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Coast Survey chart showing density of soundings from original survey used to to construct nautical chart. Comparing survey of Ponce Harbor, PuertoRico to published chart of same. In: Nautical Charts by George Rockwell Putnam, 1908. 162 pp.
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Coast Survey surveys of Chincoteague Island, Virginia illustrating building outof land areas between 1849 and 1902. In: Nautical Charts by George Rockwell Putnam, 1908. 162 pp.
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Growth of land at Cubits Gap, Mississippi River Delta, between 1852 and 1905.In: Nautical Charts by George Rockwell Putnam, 1908. 162 pp.
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Columbia River Entrance showing movement of Sand Island, surveys of 1851, 1870,and 1905. In: Nautical Charts by George Rockwell Putnam, 1908. 162 pp.
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No cell phones, no roving mechanics in this country. The truck breaks and thesurveyors have to fix it. Gravity observation party in Washington state.
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A regular full-color chart is printed on a sheet of plastic and pressed over asteel mold, providing a light, flexible, relief map.
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Longitude and latitude lines are drawn on the Coast and Geodetic Surveyprojection ruling machine. This machine eliminated thousands of man-hours ofdrafting time that would have been required to produce the projections made forthe thousands of maps p
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One of thousands of 4- X 6 foot relief models made by Aero for the armed forces is seen here just after removal from the plaster mold.In: Wilson, Don C. 1949. Production of Plastic Relief Maps in Surveying andMapping, Vol. IX, no. 3, pp. 183-186.
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Relief model - a thin gauge aluminum sheet - is formed on the BraundReliefograph. The altimeter is seen on the left.In: Wilson, Don C. 1949. Production of Plastic Relief Maps in Surveying andMapping, Vol. IX, no. 3, pp. 183-186.
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Map showing the magnetic observatories of the world.
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