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Alexander Dallas Bache

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Alexander Dallas Bache was an American physicist, scientist, and surveyor who erected coastal fortifications and conducted a detailed survey to map the mideastern United States coastline. Originally an army engineer, he later became Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and built it into the foremost scientific institution in the country before the Civil War.

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Report on Education in Europe
Report on Education in Europe
Alexander Dallas Bache
Observations at the Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory, at the Girard College, Philadelphia
Observations at the Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory, at the Girard College, Philadelphia
Alexander Dallas Bache, Girard College. Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory
Tidal Observations in the Arctic Seas
Tidal Observations in the Arctic Seas
Elisha Kent Kane, Charles Whittlesey, Silas Weir Mitchell, Alexander Dallas Bache, Sir Francis Leopold M'Clintock, George Read Morehouse
Lecture on the Gulf Stream
Lecture on the Gulf Stream
Alexander Dallas Bache
United States Coast Survey, Alexander Dallas Bache
Meteorological Observations Taken Especially for the Eclip[s]e at Gunstock Sta Near Laconia, Belknap Co. New Hampshire 1860
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Meteorological Observations Taken Especially for the Eclip[s]e at Gunstock Sta Near Laconia, Belknap Co. New Hampshire 1860
United States Coast Survey, Alexander Dallas Bache

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