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Figure 49. Float invented by Prince Albert I of Monaco and Georges Pouchet for study of currents in the North Atlantic off l'HIRONDELLE in 1887. Left: the unit as it would be seen in the water.Right: the internal structure of the float. A thousand of these floats werereleased mainly northwest of the Azores in July 1887. (Image credit: Oceanographic Museum of Monaco)