Wireless Telegraphy: Report of the Inter-departmental Board Appointed by the President to Consider the Entire Question of Wireless Telegraphy in the Service of the National Government

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905 - 40 sider
 

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Side 12 - Agriculture, has charge of the forecasting of weather ; the issue of storm warnings ; the display of weather and flood signals for the benefit of agriculture, commerce, and navigation; the gauging and reporting of rivers; the maintenance and operation of seacoast telegraph lines, and the collection and transmission of marine intelligence for the benefit of commerce and navigation...
Side 18 - Agriculture, shall have charge of the forecasting of weather, the issue of storm warnings, the display of weather and flood signals for the benefit of agriculture, commerce, and navigation, the gauging and reporting of rivers, the maintenance and operation of seacoast telegraph lines and the collection and transmission of marine intelligence for the benefit of commerce and navigation...
Side 12 - A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages, that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods.
Side 12 - The Chief of the Weather Bureau, under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, has charge of the forecasting of weather; the issue of storm warnings; the display of weather and flood signals for the benefit of agriculture, commerce, and navigation; the gauging and reporting of rivers; the maintenance and operation of seacoast' telegraph lines, and the collection...
Side 12 - ... construction, repair, and operation of military telegraph lines, and the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise...
Side 10 - ... be needed by the hydrographer of the Navy for use on the pilot and other charts, which data shall be furnished by and credited to the Weather Bureau; That it is the opinion of this board that no meteorological work need or should be done by any portion of the Navy for the purpose of publication, or for the making of forecasts or storm warnings; that all such duties, being purely civil, should devolve upon the Weather Bureau of the Department of Agriculture in accordance with the organic act creating...
Side 5 - July 29, 1904, of the report of an interdepartmental board appointed by the President to consider the entire question of wireless telegraphy in the service of the National Government.
Side 12 - ... telegraph lines, and the collection and transmission of marine intelligence for the benefit of commerce and navigation; the reporting of temperature and rainfall conditions for the cotton interests; the display of frost and cold-wave signals; the distribution of meteorological information in the interests of agriculture and commerce, and the taking of such meteorological observations as may be necessary to establish and record the climatic conditions of the United States or as are essential for...
Side 10 - Department shall request all vessels having the use of its wireless stations for the receipt of messages, to take daily meteorological observations of the weather when within communicating range and to transmit such observations to the Weather Bureau, through naval wireless stations, at least once daily, and transmit observations oftener when there is a marked change in the barometer; and that there shall be no charge against the...
Side 10 - That the estimates for the support of the Hydrographic Office of the Navy, or any other office of the Navy, for the next and succeeding fiscal years, do not contain any provision for the making of ocean forecasts, or for the publication of meteorological data, other than such as may be needed by the hydrographer of the Navy for use on the pilot and other charts, which data shall be furnished by and credited to the Weather Bureau; That it is the opinion of this board that no meteorological work need...

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