Our country and its resources; . THE MAIN BUILDING OF THE NAVAL OBSERVATORY, WASHINGTON, D. C. by persons having receiving wirelesssets throughout the country, in pref-erence to the telegraphic , surveyors and astron- omers are kept supplied with the positions uf the heavenly bodies in aform for practical use through theAmerican Ephemeris and Nautical. TRANSMITTING CLOCKS, CHRONOGRAPHS AND SWITCHBOARDS USED IN THEV, S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY IN SENDING OUT THE TIME TO THE COUNTRY DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY 531 Almanac, and the American Nauti-cal Almanac through the NauticalAlmanac Off
Our country and its resources; . THE MAIN BUILDING OF THE NAVAL OBSERVATORY, WASHINGTON, D. C. by persons having receiving wirelesssets throughout the country, in pref-erence to the telegraphic , surveyors and astron- omers are kept supplied with the positions uf the heavenly bodies in aform for practical use through theAmerican Ephemeris and Nautical. TRANSMITTING CLOCKS, CHRONOGRAPHS AND SWITCHBOARDS USED IN THEV, S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY IN SENDING OUT THE TIME TO THE COUNTRY DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY 531 Almanac, and the American Nauti-cal Almanac through the NauticalAlmanac Office, which is a depart-ment of the Naval Observatory. In order to assist in furnishingdata to keep the Almanac and Eph-emeris up to the highest attainablestandard of accuracy continuousfundamental observations of theheavenly bodies are kept up at theObservatory. When a mariner, a surveyor or an THE BUREAU OF The duties of the Bureau ofYards and Docks comprise all thatrelate to the design and construc-tion of public works of the as dry docks, marine rail-ways, building ways, harbor works,quay walls, piers, wharves, slips,dredging, landings, floating and sta- astronomer wishes to find his astron-omical position on the globe he doesit by observations of the heavenlybodies, using the Nautical Almanacand a comparison of his local timewith that of the Observ
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