The corps were accustomed to controversy since the Congress designated them the mother agency for the nation's first weather service.
-in 1881, police arrested Captain Henry W. Howgate, chief financial manager of the Signal Corps, for embezzling nearly a quarter million dollars. Many complaints came up about the Signal Corps, even from within it. Some veteran military officers, among them Major H. H. C. Dunwoody, opposed a push by General Hazan to conduct primary research into the causes and character of weather.
-A farmer, Fredrick Taylor, wrote "In the past the man has been the first, in the future the system must be first."
-on January 16, 1887, Gen.. Adolphus W. Greely took over as chief of the Signal Corps.
-On January 21, 1888, Inspector Weaver, arrived at the Galveston station at 1pm. the barometers to see if they were standing vertically, he checked to see if they had enough mercury, and if air infiltrated their vacuum tubes. He looked over their record books, and evaluated the performance of each man assigned to the station. he barometers to be filthy, Weber noted, "They hardly look at the local office for information but depend mostly upon St. Louis and New Orleans papers for weather news." …show more content…
200 New Yorkers died. About four feet covered Albany and killed 400 people.
-March 1889, General Greely ordered Isaac Cline to take over the failing Galveston station, and to establish the first Texas-wide weather
-in 1881, police arrested Captain Henry W. Howgate, chief financial manager of the Signal Corps, for embezzling nearly a quarter million dollars. Many complaints came up about the Signal Corps, even from within it. Some veteran military officers, among them Major H. H. C. Dunwoody, opposed a push by General Hazan to conduct primary research into the causes and character of weather.
-A farmer, Fredrick Taylor, wrote "In the past the man has been the first, in the future the system must be first."
-on January 16, 1887, Gen.. Adolphus W. Greely took over as chief of the Signal Corps.
-On January 21, 1888, Inspector Weaver, arrived at the Galveston station at 1pm. the barometers to see if they were standing vertically, he checked to see if they had enough mercury, and if air infiltrated their vacuum tubes. He looked over their record books, and evaluated the performance of each man assigned to the station. he barometers to be filthy, Weber noted, "They hardly look at the local office for information but depend mostly upon St. Louis and New Orleans papers for weather news." …show more content…
200 New Yorkers died. About four feet covered Albany and killed 400 people.
-March 1889, General Greely ordered Isaac Cline to take over the failing Galveston station, and to establish the first Texas-wide weather