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Figure 67

Description

Figure 67. British Admiralty echo sounder, model MS X. In the 1930's theBritish Admiralty designed a magnetostrictive ultrasonic sounding device whichsubsequently led to the manufacture of magnetostrictive sounding systems byHughes and Son Ltd.

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