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Our National Weather Service has its roots in Nineteenth Century science and policy. The Army Surgeon General began a coordinated attempt to obtain weather observations from Army posts as early as 1814, followed by a national network of observers reporting telegraphically to the Smithsonian in the late 1840's and 1850's, and then the establishment of a true National weather observation network under the Army Signal Corps in 1870. Since that time there has been a tradition of accuracy, devotion to duty, and innovation in the methods and technologies of weather observation. Below is some of the history of the development of that tradition....
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