[time-nuts] NYTimes: New geoid soon

[Steve Allen]

On Sat 2020-05-23T12:21:17-0700 jimlux hath writ:
> > So fiendishly difficult that the first time the task was completed was
> > not until 1899
>
> And how long did Mr. Schott and the team work on it?

The reason that this report was in the Lick library is that the
observatory hosted one of the sites in 1888.  google will reveal scans
of a lot of the preliminary reports for the traverse in parts farther
east.

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