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Description
Figure 13. Bouquet de la Grye sounder, invented by the French hydrographicengineer Anatole Bouquet de la Grye in 1869. The main point about this devicewas a new type of weight release mechanism, based on the action of springreleased at the moment that the weight contacted the bottom. This method wasused extensively on cable survey ships.
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
Sounding Instruments
Keywords
Oceanography
Historical instruments