Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lakehurst, a powerful dirigible is under construction, intended to sail over the Pole to Europe. Naval officers on board will complete the map of the vast polar spaces by means of photography. And regular commerce across the Pole is looked for soon after...
...Topographical Map of France" will be the subject of the lecture which Professor Emmanuel de Margerie, Exchange Professor in Engineering and Applied Sciences from France, will deliver in the Geological lecture room at 1.30 o'clock this afternoon...
During the European War, Professor de Margerie had charge of the making of topographical maps in the war zone. Each map that was made was about 75 centimeters square and covered a space of 150 square kilometers on the terrain...
...competition was a problem in landscape design. The competitors were furnished with a topographic map representing a location in Sandwich, Mass., on Cape Cod, and were asked to design a tea-house lay-out, with tea-terrace, garden in the New England Colonial manner, boat landing, and other arrangements calculated for the pleasure and accommodation of patrons...
...United States government has already taken steps for the adoption of the metric system, and now conducts all surveys and map work by it. The familiar "Buffalo Nickel" has the standard weight of five grams. The foot and the "lb." are, by law, expressed as fractions of the meter and kilogram. And beyond this, in the field of electrical engineering, all measurements are based on the "centimeter, gram, second" system; while many prominent manufacturing concerns have already adopted it. Only the force of inertia always present in the "great American public" has prevented its general acceptance...