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Mechanical Prophet of Coast Survey Tower Strikes Again
A Washington feature chronicles the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Tide-Predicting Machine No. 2, nicknamed the Mechanical Prophet. It explains its origins, the men behind it, and how the device saves about 180000 dollars annually by calculating tides across ports globally.
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John. Dickinson Sherman
Uncle Sam
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Globe
Washington
Department of Commerce
Col E. Lester Jones
New Jersey Avenue
B Street
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Grimm
New York
Griffin
Anthony J. Griffin
United States
National Academy of Sciences
American Association For the Advancement of Sciences
American Engineering Council
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Rollin A. Harris
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Cornell University
Doctor Harris
E. G. Fischer
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Ernst George Fischer
Baltimore
Georg Ernst
Caroline
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Philosophic Society of Washington
Washington’ Society of Engineers
Washington. Academy of Sciences
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