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WALKER, SEARS COOK (18051853)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 273 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
WALKER, SEARS COOK (18051853) , American astronomer, was born at Wilmington,
Massachusetts
 , on the 28th of
March
  1805. Graduating at Harvard in 1825, he was a teacher till 1835, was an actuary in 1835r845, and then became assistant at the Washington
observatory
 . In 1847 he took charge of the longitude department of the United States
Coast
  Survey, where he was among the first to make use of the electric telegraph for the purpose of determining the difference of longitude between two stations, and he introduced the method of registering transit observations electrically by means of a chronograph. He also investigated the orbit of the newly discovered
planet
  Neptune. He died near Cincinnati on the 3oth of January 1853. His brother Timothy (18021856) was a
leader
  of the
Ohio
  bar.
See Memoirs of the Roy. Astr. Soc. vol. xxiii.


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