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Preparing a streamlined buoy for planting with Roberts Radio Current Meter.Inventor Elliott B. Roberts kneeling next to buoy.It was the first current system to telemeter current information.Buoy telemetry was an outgrowth of RAR radio-sono-buoy technology.Tests conducted on LESTER JONES (Image credit: C&GS; Season's Report Roberts 1942-22)