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Temporary sandbox for the "work" section of Oscar S. Adams

Philippines

• Rappelye, Howard S. (1921), "The Work of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in the Philippine Islands", The Cornell Civil Engineer, 30 (2): 19–22

• Deily, Earle A. (1958), "The Coast and Geodetic Survey in the Philippine Islands", Coast and Geodetic Survey Sesquicentennial Papers (PDF) Originally published in The Journal, Coast and Geodetic Survey, October 1957, No. 7, pp. 1–21

• Frisby, E. R. (1921), Philippine Surveys by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (PDF) (unpublished manuscript), Washington: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey

Triangulation

1913–1914 did computations adjusting a triangulation https://archive.org/details/geodesyprimarytr00uscouoft/page/5/mode/1up

more about triangulation computations https://books.google.com/books?id=koAyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA22

Soler, Tomás (2014). "William Bowie: Eminent Scientist and First Chairman (1926–1940) of ASCE's Surveying and Mapping Division" (PDF). Journal of Surveying Engineering. 140 (1): 2–11. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)SU.1943-5428.0000117.

Bowie, Triangulation System of the United States https://www.jstor.org/stable/14644

Survey of Geodetic Approaches to Mapping and the Relationship to Graph-Based SLAM https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=8b6b76d3528237f5be13d6aac279c4e312e96e84

H. Wolf, “Gaußscher Algorithmus (Doolittle-Methode) und Boltzsches Entwicklungsverfahren,”BulletinGe ́ode ́sique,vol.26,no.1,pp.445– 452, 1952.

bowie method used in Europe, doi:10.1029/TR028i001p00062

North American datum

cooperation with canada https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/44575967.pdf

Map projections

Snyder p. 98, Adams popularized the Albers equal-area conic projection, first invented in early 19th century.

snyder, 1982: https://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19820020846/?q=%22oscar+s.+adams%22

Helped Cahill with his octahedral maps, e.g. JSTOR 26262448, JSTOR 520098

Helped Boggs with "eumorphic", JSTOR 211366

quartic pseudocylindrical equal-area projection, discussion: Snyder, J. P. (1977). A Comparison of Pseudocylindrical Map Projections. The American Cartographer, 4(1), 59–81. doi:10.1559/152304077784080031

Last part of Geodetic Operations 1927–1929, https://geodesy.noaa.gov/library/pdfs/Special_Publication_No_166.pdf

State plane coordinates

discussion of state plane coordinates: JSTOR 44555161 https://geodesy.noaa.gov/library/pdfs/Geodetic_Letter_Vol_4%20_No_1_January_1937.pdf

https://archive.org/details/sim_american-society-of-civil-engineers-transactions_1940_105/page/n747/mode/2up?q=%22o.+s.+adams%22+ https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofsec00inte/page/529/mode/1up

Carpenter, J. C. (1948), "Plane Co-ordinates for Highway Maps", The Military Engineer, 40 (276): 464–467, JSTOR 44567336

Materials

Wraight, A. Joseph; Roberts, Elliot B., The Coast and Geodetic Survey 1807–1957: 150 Years of History (PDF), U.S. Department of Commerce, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office

Cloud, John (2007), Science on the Edge: The Story of the Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1867-1970 (PDF)

Monmonier, Mark (2004), Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-53431-6

Note in Monmonier 2004, pp. 195–196

• p. 181, calls Adams and Deetz "the leading federal experts on map projection"
• p. 90ff., talks about Lambert Conformal Conic
• p. 102f., 108f., State Plane Coordinate system
• p. 106, discussion of benefit of conformal map (slight distance errors) vs. polyconic (more significant angle errors) for artillery targeting
• p. 107, UTM, note on page 195f. about Adams' career:
  • Adams helped Bowie with Polygonic Grid
  • leading authority on map projection in the 1920s
  • supervised implementation of the State Plane Coordinate system, 1930s
  • (Monmonier recommends Dracup Geodetic Surveys, Snyder Flattening the Earth)

In 1933-34, Oscar S. Adams ably assisted by Charles N. Claire developed the State Plane Coordinate System (SPCS) at the request of George F. Syme a North Carolina Highway engineer. [...]

Adams had many notable accomplishments prior to this work. For example, he authored or co-authored 22 Special Publications and Serials dealing mostly with map projections and adjustments. This group includes Sp.Pub.no.28 Application of the Theory of Least Squares to the Adjustment of Triangulation issued first in 1915 which provides the mathematical basis for adjustments by condition equations and observation equations on the ellipsoid and still remains a viable part of the literature.

He was actually the father of NAD27 since he gave Bowie's adjustment proposal life and personally made many of the computations. Later he was directly involved with the creation of the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) system used by the U.S. Army worldwide, although his association with the project is not well known. Adams also collaborated with Bowie in 1918 in developing the Military Grid System, the forerunner of UTM, dividing the country into seven zones, 9 of longitude wide, with the polyconic projection the basis for the grid.

Dracup, Joseph F. "Geodetic Surveys in the United States: The Beginning and the Next 100 Years 1807-1940." (1994). https://aagsmo.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/History-Part-V-nov_dec-1_001.pdf

velocity of light https://books.google.com/books?id=koAyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA12

Other

Recording Secretary of the Philosophical Society of Washington, later 1930s

President of the Philosophical Society of Washington retiring 1934

member of the Washington Academy of Sciences, American Geophysical Union, Mathematician's Association of America, American Congress on Mapping and Surveying

In the late 1910s, he was a regular contributor of problems and solutions to the American Mathematical Monthly.