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Figure 24. Current meter invented by Ernest Mayer in 1877 for studyingcurrents of the Adriatic Sea. The first tests were made near Pola in the northern Adriatic, by Professors Joseph Luksch and Julius Wolf of the Austrian MarineAcademy in 1877. They were aboard the steamer DELI. (Image credit: Oceanographic Museum of Monaco | P. Roggero)