Photograph of Kelvin's recording tide gauge

Made:: 1882

designer:: William Baron Kelvin Thomson

Photograph of Kelvin's recording tide gauge, 1882

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Category:: Geophysics

Object Number:: 1926-549

type:: photograph

credit:: University of Glasgow

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Photograph of Kelvin's recording tide gauge

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