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Description
Figure 67. The bathythermograph first conceived by Athelstan Spilhaus in 1936and produced in 1937. This instrument measured a continuous profile of sea-temperature versus depth. It was the prototype of many types of instrumentsused either for studies of physical oceanography or for use by the underseawarfare community.
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