sounding machine

Massey's was not the only sounding machine adopted during the nineteenth century.

Both lead and line and sounding machines continued to be used right throughout the twentieth century.

Among the oceanographical research equipment was a Lucas deep-sea sounding machine.

The Challenger expedition used similar instruments called Baillie sounding machines to extract samples from the sea bed.

Near Guadeloupe successful experiments were made with the Kelvin sounding machine which was used afterwards in depths between 20 and 100 fathoms.

The firm manufacture binnacle compasses and deep sea sounding machines, many of which were installed on the great ships built on Clyde side.

We picked up the edge of this bank with our sounding machine, and steering north half a mile, laid our mines in latitude--No!

One of the most widely adopted sounding machines was developed in 1802 by Edward Massey, a clockmaker from Staffordshire.

During his period on the Blake he developed the Sigsbee sounding machine which became a standard item of deep-water oceanographc equipment for the next 50 years.

Massey's sounding machine could then be hauled in and the depth could be read off the dials in fathoms.

This Thomson Sounding Machine made its first discovery in 1874, of several seamounts west of the Hawaiian Islands.

The sounding weights used on the HMS Challenger were slightly advanced called "Baillie sounding machine".

Toto Photos: Photo Gallery: sounding (illustrations and photos of many early sounding machines and devices)

His son, the lead morning sentry, had seen flying creatures that were neither hunter nor eagle, nor were they the angry sounding machines of the legendary bear people.

The vessel was the second oceanographic research ship to bear the name of Zera Luther Tanner, a noted oceanographer and inventor of a patented sounding machine.

By 1922, responding to these needs, the Navy had developed the first practical sonic sounding machine, making it possible to surpass all previous efforts in deep-sea sounding and bathymetric charting.

It was charted in 1933 by DI personnel on the Discovery II and was named for R.S. Veitch, the sounding machine technician of the ship.

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Inshore hydrography was done by "the whaleboat and alco-vapor launch" while offshore survey to 20 fathoms was done by casting the lead and in deeper water by the sounding machine.

The most widely adopted deep-sea sounding machine in the nineteenth century was Kelvin's sounding machine, designed by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) and patented in 1876.

Kelvin, Bottomley and Baird Ltd manufactured Marine navigation equipment such as "Kelvite" binnacle compasses and sounding machines at the Kelvin Works, Hillington, Glasgow.

In fact in 1958, the first year the Canadian Government established a major program in the Western Arctic, soundings were collected by drilling a hole in the ice and lowering a lead using a Lucas sounding machine.

With development and installation of Sigsbee's sounding machine George S. Blake became the primary deep ocean sounding ship alternating between the Gulf of Maine and northern waters in summer and southern waters in winter.

These depths were determined by John Murray's Bathymetric Survey of the Scottish Lochs in 1902-08, and were found with a Kelvin wire sounding machine; a sophisticated ratchet device in which a plumb line of piano wire is lowered from a rowing boat.

The feature was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, a British physicist and engineer who made substantial improvements in the design of magnetic compasses, 1873-78, and invented the Thomson sounding machine in 1878.