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Description
Figure 30. High pressure bottle devised by Prince Albert I of Monaco in 1890.The manometer was set in place after the bottle's return from the deep ocean inorder to measure the pressure of the water sample. This bottle was used forcollecting water samples at depth and returning them to the surface at theambient water pressure at the depth of the sample.
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