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Description

Figure 40. Current recording device invented by Pierre Idrac in 1927. Thisdevice was first used in the Gulf of Gascogne and in the la Manche on the vessel POURQUOI-PAS in 1927.

Credit

Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

Photographer

P. Roggero

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space

History of Oceanography Collection

The Early Instruments - Collections of the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco

Current Measuring Devices

Keywords

Oceanography

Historical instruments