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BACHE, ALEXANDER DALLAS (1806-1867)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 132 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AUD-BAI
BACHE, ALEXANDER DALLAS (1806-1867) , American physicist,
great
 -grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was born at Philadelphia on the 19th of July 18o6. After graduating at the United States Military
Academy
  at West Point in 1825, he acted as assistant professor there for some time, and as a
lieutenant
  in the corps of engineers he was engaged for a year or two in the erection of
coast
  fortifications. He occupied the post of professor bf natural philosophy and
chemistry
  in the University of
Pennsylvania
  in 18281841 and in 18421843. For the trustees of what in 1848 was to become Girard College, but had not yet been opened, he spent the years 1836-1838 in Europe, examining European systems of education, and on his return published a very valuable report. In 1843, on the death of Professor F. R. Hassler (1770-1843), he was appointed
superintendent of the United States
coast
  survey. He succeeded in impressing Congress with a sense of the
great
  value of this
work
 , and by means of the liberal aid it granted, he carried out a singularly comprehensive plan with great ability and most satisfactory results. By a skilful division of labour, and by the erection of numerous observing stations, the mapping out of the whole coast proceeded simultaneously under the eye of the general director, and in addition a vast
mass
  of magnetic and meteorological observations was collected. He died at Newport, Rhode
Island
 , on the 17th of
February
  1867.


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