Alexander Dallas Bache : : Scientist and Educator, 1806-1867 / / Merle M. Odgers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Odgers, Merle M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1947
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: PENNSYLVANIA LIVES
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Contents --; I. FRANKLIN'S MOST FAMOUS SCION --; II. WEST POINT AND THE ARMY --; III. A PROFESSORSHIP AT TWENTY-TWO --; IV. A SCHOOL IN THE MAKING: GIRARD COLLEGE --; V. "MEN AND..." --; VI. '...THINGS" --; VII. AN ENVOY'S REPORT --; VIII. THE PHILADELPHIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL --; IX. EARLY RESEARCH --; X. MAGNETISM --; XI. A FIRST CAREER ENDS --; XII. THE COAST SURVEY --; XIII. SERVICES TO THE NATION --; XIV. MAN OF SCIENCE --; XV. THE CHIEF --; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512805185; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512805185
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Merle M. Odgers.

This is the biography of a man who made his greatest contribution to science in his reorganization of the U.S. Coast Survey. Alexander Dallas Bache was appointed superintendent in 1843, and the Survey increased its scope and improved its methods in the study of winds, tides, currents, and harbors under his charge