National Museum of American History
Depth Sounder (Weight)
1878
William Thomson, a noted physicist and engineer in Glasgow, Scotland, designed various instruments for navigation at sea. This weight is part of is the model he submitted with his application for a U.S. patent for a deep sea sounding apparatus.
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