Scientific apparatus and instruments
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Scientific apparatus and instruments
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Scientific apparatus and instruments
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- Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating the report of the Superintendent of the construction of standard weights and measures. August 12, 1848. Ordered to be printed, and that 500 additional copies be printed for the Superintendent of Weights and Measures
- Authorizing the construction and equipment of a geomagnetic station for the Department of Commerce. March 27 (legislative day, March 24), 1952. -- Ordered to be printed
- Reports from the Secretary of the Treasury of scientific investigations in relation to sugar and hydrometers, made, under the superintendence of Professor A.D. Bache, by Professor McCulloh. Revised edition, by order of the Senate
- Benjamin H. Benton. March 3, 1859. -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed
- Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, a report showing the amount expended and the progress made in the Coast Survey, and also the weights and measures furnished the several states and Custom-houses, and their cost. December 16, 1858. -- Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. December 20, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing the usual number submitted, considered, and agreed to
- Electro-magnetic telegraph -- astronomical observations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, relative to local differences of longitude and astronomical observations generally. January 6, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed, together with 1,000 extra copies, 250 of which for the Superintendent of the Coast Survey
- Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting a report in reply to a resolution of the Senate of December 27, 1848, relating to the expenditures and results of the United States Coast Survey. February 8, 1849. Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed
- Magnetic telegraph. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from Professor Morse, relative to the magnetic telegraph. December 23, 1844. Read, and laid upon the table
- Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the report of Lieutenant Colonel Graham on the subject of the boundary line between the United States and Mexico. August 27, 1852 -- Referred to the select committee on the subject. August 31, 1852 -- Ordered to be printed
- Authorizing the construction and equipment of a geomagnetic station for the Department of Commerce. June 13, 1951. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
- Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating a report of chemical analyses of sugars, molasses, &c., and of researches on hydrometers, made under the superintendence of Professor A.D. Bache by Professor R.S. McCulloh. February 21, 1845. Read, and ordered to be printed. March 3, 1845. Ordered, that 500 additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate
- Report and charts of the cruise of the U.S. brig Dolphin, made under direction of the Navy Department, by Lieut. S.P. Lee, United States Navy
- Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of July 24, 1854, the fourth meteorological report of Prof. James P. Espy. February 28, 1857. -- Ordered, that 3,000 copies thereof be printed, in addition to the usual number, with seventy of the maps accompanying the same
- Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating a report of the computation of tables, to be used with the hydrometer recently adopted for use in the United States Custom-houses, made under the superintendence of Professor A.D. Bache, by Professor R.S. McCulloh. February 10, 1851. Referred to the Committee on Finance. February 11, 1851. Committee discharged. February 14, 1851. Ordered to be printed ; and that 3,000 additional copies be printed -- 1,500 of which for the use of the Senate, and the remainder for the use of the Treasury Department
- In Senate of the United States. July 3, 1838. Submitted, and ordered to be printed, and that 5,000 additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate. Mr. Tallmadge submitted the following report, The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Henry Hall Sherwood, of the City and State of New York, claiming to have made new and important discoveries in magnetism ..
- Coast survey. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report in relation to the coast survey. December 8, 1836. Read, and laid upon the table
- Memorial of Henry Hall Sherwood, praying the aid of Congress to enable him to perfect and secure the benefits of his invention for determining the variation of the needle, and for finding the latitude and longitude by the aid of magnetism, &c. June 15, 1838. Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed
- Making and using scientific equipment, David E. Newton
- Survey the coasts of the United States. Documents submitted by Mr. Carter, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, to accompany the Bill (No. 288) to amend the acts to provide for surveying the coasts of the United States. May 1, 1828. Printed by order of the House of Representatives
- O.R. Maxfield. April 30, 1942. -- Ordered to be printed
- World's Columbian Exposition Chicago, Ill., 1893. Report of the Committee on Awards of the World's Columbian Commission. Special reports upon special subjects or groups. In two volumes. Vol. II
- Memorials of James P. Espy and of the Philadelphia Lyceum, praying the aid of the general government in making a series of meteorological observations. May 2, 1838. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed
- A field instrument for quantitative determination of beryllium by activation analysis, by W.W. Vaughn, E.E. Wilson and J.M. Ohm
- Coast survey, and weights and measures. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of Professor Hassler's report on the survey of the coast of the United States, and the progress which has been made in the fabrication of standard weights and measures. December 11, 1837. Read, and laid upon the table
- Observations at the Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory, at the Girard College, Philadelphia, made under the direction of A.D. Bache, LL. D. and with funds supplied by the members of the American Philosophical Society, and by the Topographical Bureau of the United States, 1840 to 1845. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States, and under the direction of the Topographical Bureau
- Report of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating a report of the plan and construction of the depot of charts and instruments, with a description of the instruments, &c. February 18, 1845. Read, and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. February 20, 1845. Ordered to be printed, and that 400 additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate, and 200 copies for the use of the Navy Department
- Exploring expedition. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 3d instant, in relation to the progress which has been made with regard to the exploring expedition, authorized at the last session of Congress. February 8, 1837. Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union
- Disclosures on viscous damped wind vane, nonskid road or runway, regrooved pneumatic tire with removable inserts, devide for radially positioning a rotating wheel, method for fabricating precision waveguide sections, distortion-cancelling loudspeaker sys, David. Robbins
- Promoting the national defense by authorizing the construction of aeronautical research facilities by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics necessary to the effective prosecution of aeronautical research. May 1, 1952. -- Ordered to be printed