File:Albert J. Myer - Brady-Handy.jpg
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| Description | Albert J. Myer. Library of Congress description: "Gen. A. J. Meyer, U.S.A. Chief Signal Officer" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | between 1870 and 1880 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.03618. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH826- 419 <P&P>[P&P] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Albert James Myer ( September 20, 1828 – August 24, 1880) was a surgeon and U.S. Army officer. He is known as the father of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, as its first chief signal officer just prior to the American Civil War, the inventor of wig-wag signaling (or aerial telegraphy), and also as the father of the U.S. Weather Bureau.
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| This work is from the Brady-Handy collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work. Mathew Brady died in 1896 and Levin C. Handy died in 1932. Photographs in this collection are in the public domain in the United States as works published before 1929 or as unpublished works whose copyright term has expired (life of author + 70 years).
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