Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8672
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Machine for sampling sea-water at depth
Date
1819
Creator
Francis Marcet (1803 - 1883, British) , Physicist
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 345mm
width (drawing): 210mm
width (drawing): 210mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 11 from the paper "On the specific gravity, and the temperature of sea waters, in different parts of the ocean, and in particular seas; with some account of their saline content", by Alexander Marcet, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.109 (1819), pp.161-208. The instrument has twintrapdoors within a weighted brass cylinder. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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