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Close to the wind : the Beaufort scale / by Malone, Peter,1953-(CARDINAL)388207;
Explains how the Beaufort scale is used to measure the force of the wind especially at sea. In 1810, a British naval officer and surveyor named Francis Beaufort developed a scale to give sailors a common language for describing the wind. From 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane), stunning artwork and jaunty prose show what life at sea must have been like for a young boy serving as a midshipman in the 1800s. As William sails from Naples to the Caribbean, we learn intriguing historical information and nautical terminology, and witness how the wind affected day-to-day life on a ship. Detailed illustrations show the wind at work, and readers will be engrossed and fascinated as they watch the storm develop in magnificent full-color paintings.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Beaufort scale; Winds;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 11
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Defining the wind : the Beaufort scale, and how a nineteenth-century admiral turned science into poetry / by Huler, Scott.(CARDINAL)278034;
Introduction September 6, 1996: Hurricane Fran and before -- Beaufort of the Admiralty -- In search of the wind -- The Beaufort scale, and who wrote it, in a general way -- Reverse-engineering the wind -- "Nature rightly questioned, never lies": the Beaufort scale, nineteenth-century science, and the last eighteenth-century man -- Getting the word out: on the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the dictionary, and how Sir Francis Beaufort slept with his sister -- Taking the measure of the wind: the fabulous beaufortometer -- A picture of the wind: poetry, the shipping forecast, and the search for the North Shields observer -- Observation, a panegyric: on the Beaufort moment. -- Appendix A. Beaufort scale family album -- Appendix B. Explanation of the plate describing the rigging, etc., of a first-rate man of war.
Subjects: Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774-1857.; Beaufort scale.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Hear the wind blow / by Boyle, Doe,author.(CARDINAL)368881; Paik, Emily,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references.Illustrations and rhyming text portray wind, from a kiss of air to a roiling hurricane, in thirteen verses that represent the categories of the Beaufort wind force scale. Includes facts about the Beaufort scale and glossary.Grades 2-3.Ages 4-8.AD760L
Subjects: Fiction.; Picture books.; Stories in rhyme.; Beaufort scale; Winds; Windstorms;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 12
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Beaufort County, N.C., 1973 roads / by Stout, G. P.(Garland P.),1907-1988.(CARDINAL)288880;
Blue line print.
Subjects: Roads; Historic sites;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Beaufort County, N.C. 1982 roads [cartographic material] / by Stout, G. P.(Garland P.),1907-1988.;
Subjects: Maps.; Roads; Historic sites; Names, Geographical;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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North Carolina 1870.
Map shows railroads, common roads, canals, State capital, cities, county towns, villages, P.O. etc.
Subjects: Maps; HarborszNorth Carolina; Railroads; Roads;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Colton's North Carolina [cartographic material] / by Colton, J. H.(Joseph Hutchins),1800-1893.(CARDINAL)290302; J.H. Colton & Co.(CARDINAL)268257;
Subjects: Railroads;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tar-Pamlico River basin-2 (lower basin) / by North Carolina.Department of Water and Air Resources.(CARDINAL)133942;
Subjects: Maps;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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J.H. Colton's topographical map of North and South Carolina, a large portion of Georgia & part of adjoining states. by Colton, J. H.(Joseph Hutchins),1800-1893.(CARDINAL)290302; Cumming, William Patterson,1900-1989.(CARDINAL)125399;
From: North Carolina in maps / W.P. Cumming.
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Tar-Pamlico River basin-1 (head of Tar River to vic. of Washington) / by North Carolina.Department of Water and Air Resources.(CARDINAL)133942;
Subjects: Maps;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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