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Description
Steam winch with steel wire. Steel wire for deepsea dredging was first used on the BLAKE. This innovation was the result of collaboration between Charles D. Sigsbee and Alexander Agassiz. It was Agassiz's idea to replace hemp rope with steel cable mining technology. In: Deep-Sea Sounding and Dredging, by Charles D. Sigsbee. 1880. Plate 30, p. 152. Call Number GC75 .S53.
Credit
NOAA Central Library
Display Date
1885?
Location
North Atlantic Ocean
Collection
Voyage to Inner Space
Keywords
Oceanography
Pre-1950
Ships