Sounding device made by William P. Trowbridge for Coast Survey. Line would pay out of a descending cylinder and stationery cylinder on deck. Similar to modern bathythermograph copper wire instrument. Civil War intervened stopping research. Probably would have worked
Photo Category: Charting - Soundings - Bathymetry - Mechanical
Photo Date: 1860
Added On | 19th October 2015 |
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