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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, manœuvre, 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…
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Excerpt from History of the Signal Service: With Catalogue of Publications, Instrument and Stations
As one by one, yet all independently, the coast signal Observers on any day tele graph to the central office the same significant tidings of the ocean indications of an Atlantic gale - the intensity and direction of the swell - their concurrent observations often present unmistakable proofs of the presence, course, and progress1ve rate of these menacing storms. The intelligence thus afforded is indispensable to the storm-warning and weather-prediction work of the Washington authorities.
But, apart from the meteorological value of such a coast Signal Service, its inci dental contributions to the life-saving stations have already proved of the greatest assistance.
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