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3 unusual facts about Alexander Dallas Bache


Alexander Dallas Bache Monument

The Alexander Dallas Bache Monument is the tomb of Alexander Dallas Bache, a noted American scientist and surveyor.

Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory

The deeper roots of AOML can be traced to the oceanographic investigations of the U.S. Coast Survey beginning in the mid-19th century under the direction of Professor Alexander Dallas Bache, great grandson of Benjamin Franklin and a pre-eminent U.S. science figure of the age.

Coast Survey

Alexander Dallas Bache, great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was the second Coast Survey Superintendent.



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