History of the Signal Service
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Excerpt from History of the Signal Service: With Catalogue of Publications, Instrument and Stations The Signal Service of the Army of the United States, as at present constituted, is an organization upon which is devolved the two-fold duty (1) of providing for the Army an efficient corps charged with the work of opening and maintaining communication, at the front, in time of war, and (2) of noting the development and progress of storms and other meteorological phenomena and reporting the same to the public with predictions of probable future atmospheric conditions. The field-telegraph trains of the Signal Service are organized for use with armies. They are managed by soldiers who are drilled to march with, manoeuvre, work, and protect them. The train carries light or field-telegraph lines, which can be very quickly erected or run out at the rate of two or three miles per hour. They can be put in use for any distance, and be as rapidly taken down, repacked, and marched off with the detachment to be used elsewhere. The Signal Service also transmits intelligence in reference to storms or approaching weather changes by the display of warning-signals, and by reports posted in the different cities and ports of the United States. Maps showing the state of the weather over the United States are exhibited at boards of trade, chambers of commerce, and other places of public resort. Bulletins of meteorological data for all the stations are also prominently displayed, and distributed, without expense, to the leading newspapers. Signal stations are also established in connection with the life-saving stations. These stations are connected by telegraph, and the former, in addition to displaying storm-warning signals and making the usual meteorological reports, make special reports upon the temperature of the water, tempests at sea, the sea-swells, etc. They also summon assistance to vessels in distress, from the nearest life-saving stations, or from the nearest port. Stations for river reports, to give notice of the conditions of the rivers affecting navigation and floods, are also established on the principal interior rivers and their tributaries. Military Organization. An economic feature of the Weather Bureau is that it is a military service. All its observational work is done by officers and enlisted men of the Army, and all its official publications are prepared under authority, and with the regularity and dispatch to be had only under military discipline. The military relations of the Signal Service have been found by experience to give it great advantages in extending its network of stations over the sparsely populated territories of the country, from which many of the most indispensable meteorological reports are obtained. The observers of the Signal Corps are trained not only in the art and practice of military field-signalling, but in the ordinary army drill and rules and habits of discipline; they constitute a part of the regular military establishment of the nation, always ready for active service. Occupied in time of peace with scientific work of acknowledged value, the cost of their maintenance is but a small additional burden upon the country, fully requited by their meteorological services to it. Experience has shown that arduous meteorological labors such as they perform have not been secured from any civil corps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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