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Figure 42. A BBT-Neyrpic current recorder made between 1950 and 1952 as theresult of a collaboration between the companies of Barbier, Benard & Turenne and Nepyric. The official test of this instrument was in the Gulf of Sfax about1951 in four meters of water. This instrument had higher precision and was more manageable than many of its predecessors, but abandoned photographic recording. (Image credit: Oceanographic Museum of Monaco | P. Roggero)