Brass tube, to carry a glass tube containing a chemically prepared example, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation

Made:
1876 in Glasgow
maker:
James White and Company
patentee:
William Baron Kelvin Thomson

Brass tube, with a brass cap at one end, containing a glass tube, which has a brass cap at one end and open at the other end, and contains traces of silver chromate and / or silver chloride, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation, patented by Sir William Baron Kelvin Thomson, British, 1876 and made by James White, Glasgow, Scotland, 1876

Details

Category:
Navigation
Object Number:
1879-35/5
Materials:
glass and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
type:
tube
credit:
University of Glasgow