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" The observation of the vane requires more care than is usually given. In winds of considerable strength the vane is never at rest, or fixed in the same direction; it oscillates incessantly, and its oscillations increase in extent with certain winds and... "
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution - Page 232
by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1856
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Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 1

United States. War Department - 1871 - 484 pages
...at station No. — is degrees. The observation of the vane requires more care than is usually given. In winds of considerable strength the vane is never at rest, or fixed iu the same direction ; it oscillates incessantly, and its oscillations increase in extent with certain...
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Report of the Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, to the Secretary of War

United States. Army. Signal Corps - 1872 - 366 pages
...its removal at any future time. The observation of the vane requires more care than is usually given. In winds of considerable strength the vane is never...oscillates incessantly, and its oscillations increase in extent with certain winds and with the violence of the wiad. In such cases observers must note the...
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Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 1

United States. War Department - 1873 - 1262 pages
...removal at any future time. Gli. The observation of the vane requires more care than is usually given. In winds of considerable strength the vane is never...oscillates incessantly, and its oscillations increase in extent with certain winds and with the violence of the wind. In such cases observers must note the...
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Annual report of the chief signal-officer, to the secretary of war

United States signal office - 1873 - 330 pages
...time. The observation of the vane requires more care than is usually given. In winds of con: eiderable strength the vane is never at rest, or fixed in the...oscillates incessantly, and its oscillations increase in extent with certain winds and with the violence of the wind. In such cases observers must note the...
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents ..., Volume 2, Part 1

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1873 - 1004 pages
...time. The observation of the vane requires more care than is usually given. In winds of coniderahle strength the vane is never at rest, or fixed in the same direction ; it oscillates ini-^iiutly, and its oscillations increase in extent with certain winds and with the violence of be...
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents ..., Volume 2, Part 1

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1874 - 1302 pages
...removal at any future time. 5'i The observation of the vane requires more care than is usually given. In winds of considerable strength the vane is never at rest, or fixed iu the same direction; it osculate» incessantly, and its oscillations increase- in extent with certain...
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th ..., Volume 6

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1878 - 852 pages
...Form 31. WIND-VANE. 35. The observation of the vane requires more care than ie usually given. In winds considerable strength the vane is never at rest or fixed in the, same direction ; it oscillati s incessantly, and its oscillations increase io extent with certain winds, and with the violence...
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th ..., Volume 7

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1879 - 940 pages
...direction in which the arrow-head of vane pointe will be taken as the direction of the wind. In winde of considerable strength, the vane is never at rest...oscillates incessantly, and its oscillations increase with the violence of the wind. In such caaes observers must note the mean direction between the extremes....
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General Instructions to Observers of the Signal Service

U.S. Signal office - 1887 - 226 pages
...glancing at the anemometer cups. The observations of the vane require more care than is usually given. In winds of considerable strength the vane is never at rest or fixed in the same direction; and its oscillations increase in extent with certain winds and with the violence of the wind. In such...
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Report of the Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, to the Secretary of War

United States. Army. Signal Corps - 1873 - 1024 pages
...any future time. 53. The observation of the vane requires more care than is usually given. In winde of considerable strength the vane is never at rest,...oscillates incessantly, and its oscillations increase in extent with certain winds and with the violence of the wind. In such cases observers must note the...
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