Technologisches Wörterbuch in deutscher, französischer und englischer Sprache ... bearbeitet von E. Althans, L. Bach [u.a.] ... und hrsg. von C. Rumpf, O. Mothes, W. Unverzagt, C. von Albert [und E. Schiller] Mit einem Vorwort von Dr. Karl Karmasch ..
2.93 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (1 12x17 box) (1 oversize folder)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Manuscripts
Clippings
Drawings
Date:
1855-1894
Introduction:
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Descriptive Entry:
These papers consist of correspondence with members of the United States Coast Survey chiefly concerning tide gauges; descriptions and drawings of working parts of
clocks and tide gauges; mathematical equations and tables; records of data connected with Coast Survey work; office notes and vouchers; drafts for articles written and collected
by Avery; USCS mathematical and scientific publications; and Avery's phonetic alphabet primers. Also included is correspondence concerning a proposal to print Avery's primers
in Great Britain and an obituary of Avery.
Notations within the papers are frequently done in stenography. Knowledge of stenography will be helpful in understanding this material. Correspondents include: Robert
Stanton Avery, Alexander Dallas Bache, John Batchelder, Thomas Craig, Julius Erasmus Hilgard, Samuel P. Langley, Macmillan & Co., Levi W. Meech, Benjamin Peirce, Charles
Anthony Schott, William Wesley and Son, and B. Westermann & Co.
Historical Note:
Robert Stanton Avery (1808-1894) graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1846, but soon turned his attention to mathematics and its application to the physical sciences.
Avery taught school in the South, and in 1853 joined the United States Coast Survey (USCS) where he became chief of the Tidal Division. His duties included receiving observer
reports taken from tide gauges established on the coasts of the United States and computing tide estimates based on the data received. When Avery retired from the USCS in
1885, he devoted his remaining years to the development of the techniques of phonetic spelling.
Histoire naturelle des zoophytes : Échinodermes, comprenant la description des crinoïdes, des ophiurides, des astérides, des échinides et des holothurides / par F. Dujardin et par H. Hupé ; ouvrage accompagné des planches
