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Figure 36

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Description

Figure 36. Nansen thermometer for use with a water sampling bottle. Thisthermometer was conceived by Fridtjof Nansen in collaboration with Vagn W. Ekman. This was not a reversing thermometer but was used in an insulated bottle andthen brought back to the surface for reading. It was tested on the FRITHJOF in1910 at many hundreds of meters.

Credit

Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

Photographer

Y. Berard

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space
History of Oceanography Collection
The Early Instruments - Collections of the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco
Thermometers and Other Temperature Measuring Equipment

Keywords

Oceanography