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Figure 40

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Description

Figure 40. Aime's mechanism devised by Georges Aime in 1841 for triggering therelease of water sampling bottles. Although the records of Aime's tests of this mechanism are not available, it seems that by using this mechanism that he wasthe first to take a series of water samples from bottles strung on the samecable at a number of different levels within the water column.

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
Thermometers and Other Temperature Measuring Equipment

Keywords

Oceanography