TY  - BOOK
AU  - Odgers,Merle M.
TI  - Alexander Dallas Bache: Scientist and Educator, 1806-1867 
T2  - PENNSYLVANIA LIVES
SN  - 9781512805178
AV  - Q143.B2 
U1  - 925 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
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