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Figure 7

Description

Figure 7. Old valve bottle. Although this type of water sampling bottle wasfirst invented around 1860, unfortunately the original inventor is unknown.Such a bottle was utilized on the PORCUPINE and on the BLAKE. The bottle shownhere was made by Max Marx.

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