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Figure 62

Description

Figure 62. Leger bathometer designed by the engineer Maurice Leger working incollaboration with Prince Albert I of Monaco. It was designed to measure smallvariations in the force of gravity and relate them to the depth of water.

Credit

Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

Photographer

Y. Berard

Category

Voyage to Inner Space
History of Oceanography Collection
The Early Instruments - Collections of the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco
Sounding Instruments

Keywords

Oceanography
Historical instruments