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Figure 1. Hooke bottle, invented in 1663 by Robert Hooke, assistant to RobertBoyle, Curator of Experiments of the Royal Society. Although thissampling device probably never operated as wished, it is still considered theprototype ancestor of many types of water sampling devices.
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
Water Sampling Bottles
Keywords
Oceanography
Historical instruments