Signal Service Corps Ledgers 1872-1900

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Signal Service Corps Ledgers 1872-1900

This Collection contains an incomplete record of meteorological data in Salt Lake City, Cedar City, and Corinne, Utah, from 1872 to 1900.

8 books; 2.5 linear feet

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6624424

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United States. Army. Signal Corps

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Congress passed a resolution creating a national weather service on February 9, 1870, and it was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. This new law directed the Secretary of War to take meterological observations and provide warnings of approaching storms. The Brevet Brigadier General Albert J. Myer and his Signal Service Corps were assigned this duty on February 25, 1870 by the Secretary of War. Weather observations began on November 1, 1870. In June 1872, Congress extended the weather...