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Figure 9. Cone for use with Hensen conical net. Invented by VictorHensen of the University of Kiel in about 1883. He called this invention Korbnetz. In 1901 he described an improved version that contained a tin-plateenvelope. Between these dates, an intermediate form of this net and cone wasused in the course of the Plankton Expedition of 1889.
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
Biologic Sampling Apparatus
Keywords
Oceanography
Historical instruments