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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph 1770- (search)
gonometrical survey of his native country, and was induced to come to America about 1807 by Albert Gallatin, then Secretary of the Navy. He was employed as Professor of Mathematics at West Point from 1807 to 1810, and in 1811 was sent by the government to Europe as scientific ambassador to London and Paris, to procure necessary implements and standards of measure for use in the projected coast survey (see coast and Geodetic survey, United States). He began that survey in July, 1816, and left it in April, 1818, but resumed it in 1832, and continued its superintendent until his death, in Philadelphia, Nov. 20, 1843, when he was succeeded by Prof. Alexander D. Bache (q. v.). Professor Hassler made valuable contributions to the American Philosophical transactions on the subject of the coast survey, and in 1832 a report to the United States Senate on weights and measures. His name has been given to one of the coast survey steamers, which made a notable scientific expedition in 1871-72.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navigation acts. (search)
o apply except to nations having a similar regulation. The coasting-trade, hitherto open to foreign vessels, was now restricted to those American built and owned. To promote the increase of American seamen, all coasting and fishing vessels were required to have crews three-fourths of whom were Americans, and all registered vessels crews of whom two-fifths were Americans, under penalty of an additional tonnage duty, and, in case of fishingvessels, forfeiture of the fishing bounties. On April, 1818, an act was passed closing the ports of the United States against British vessels from any British colonial port into which American vessels were not admitted. This policy, which totally failed of its object, was kept up for twelve years, and then abandoned. History of legislation. The following resume of the navigation laws of the United States, and the development of the ship-building industry under them, is contributed by Charles H. Cramp, president of the Cramp & Sons Ship and