Longitude by wire : finding North America / Richard Stachurski.
Stachurski, Richard, 1940-
2009
GA401 .S73 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Longitude by wire : finding North America / Richard Stachurski.
Author Stachurski, Richard, 1940-
ISBN 9781570038013 (alk. paper)
1570038015 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2009.
Language English
Description ix, 239 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number GA401 .S73 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 526/.62097
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Prologue : plundered corpses
Only one hassler for the coast survey
Station buttermilk
Station head and horns
The elusive longitude
Real men in the way of science
The lightning wire
Astronomers without ears
Following the lightning wire
Finding North America
Transatlantic hubris
Heart's content
Voodoo longitude
Around the world in sixty years
Epilogue : Hertzian waves.

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