On observation of the eclipse of 1887, Aug. 18, in connection with the electric telegraph

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Abstract
IN the proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 1881, at page 359, I suggested the use of the elec• tric telegraph during total solar eclipses, and showed the appli• cability of the proposed scheme of observation to the eclipse of 1882, May 16.Had this suggestion been adopted, it is easy to see how the unique discovery of a comet by the Egyptian observers migbt bave been verified, and important data obtained regarding tbe orbit of an object now lost.Interesting as such data would have been, however, they have slender importance in comparison with the results in solar research possibly attain• able through the adoption of the proposed metbod of telegraphic transmission of important observations eastward along the path of central eclipse.In the same paper, I alluded to the eclipse of the coming summer as aftording tbe most auspicious oppor• tunity of the present century for the application of the tele• graphic method, and it may be hoped that an attempt will be made toward getting something out of tbe suggestion on this occasion, as I learn, in a late letter from Dr. S. VOll Glasenapp, Professor of Astronomy in the Im perial U ni versity of St. Petersburg, tbat the Russian telegraph service may be expected to give the use of its lines at tbis
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Authors David P. Todd
Journal american journal of science
Year 1887
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10.2475/ajs.s3-33.195.226
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https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s3-33.195.226
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