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Figure 1. Hooke bottle, invented in 1663 by Robert Hooke, assistant to RobertBoyle, Curator of Experiments of the Royal Society. Although thissampling device probably never operated as wished, it is still considered theprototype ancestor of many types of water sampling devices. (Image credit: Oceanographic Museum of Monaco | Y. Berard)