Reference number | PT/73/7/11 |
Level | Item |
Title | Drawing, machine for sampling seawater at depth by [LFM] |
Date | [1819] |
Description | Plate 11 showing an instrument for sampling seawater at depth. The instrument has twin trapdoors within a weighted brass cylinder. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Geodesy / Hydrography
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the specific gravity, and temperature of sea waters, in different parts of the ocean, and in particular seas; with some account of their saline contents' by Alexander John Gaspard Marcet.
Read to the Royal Society on 20 May 1819. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Drawing |
Physical description | Graphite on paper |
Dimensions | 345x210mm |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
Access status | Open |
Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0106 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1819.0014 |
Related records in the catalogue | PT/13/14 |
URL description | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8672 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA7022 | Marcet; Alexander John Gaspard (1770 - 1822) | 1770 - 1822 |