Mapping the Waters Along Our Coasts

Louis C. Kane
1921 Scientific American  
Left : The three-arm protractor for locating the position of the vessel from angles observed with the sextant. Right : Deep-sea thermometer, bottom specimen cup · and detachable sinker used in real deep-sea hydrography Some of the apparatus used in mapping the bed of the ocean
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican01011921-10 fatcat:yvr5wfg6x5br7j3ojshsewadvy