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Electronic storm surge modelling machine made by Shizuo Ishiguro

1960-2007

APEX Autonomous Drifting Profiler, or Argo float, 2010

2010

'The First Years' 'Friendly Floatee', plastic duck, 1990-1992

1990-1992

Robotuna, Prototype Underwater Robot, 1995

1995

Drift bottle

1919-1955

'The First Years' 'Friendly Floatee' plastic beaver, 1990-1992

1990-1992

Half-size model of 'deep-sea clamm’ sampler designed by Captain John Ross

1818-1876

TOBI (Towed Ocean Bottom Instrument), 1980s

1986

Depthometer by Dobbie-McInnes of Glasgow

'The First Years' 'Friendly Floatee' plastic frog, 1990-1992

1990-1992

Miller-Casella thermometer for taking temperatures at depth at sea

1869-1872

Expendable Bathythermograph-Underwater Temperature Measuring Device, 1970-1977

1970-1977

Deep sea reversing thermometer

1962

Klein Side Scan Sonar 'Hydroscan' towfish

Reconstruction of Robert Hooke's waywiser sounder for measuring the depth of the ocean

1977

Water-flow meter by Secretan of Paris

1870-1900

Replica of Scoresby's 'Marine Diver', Water Sampler, 1811

1811 (original)

Plastic water sampling bottle with reversing frame and brass tubes for three thermometers

Reconstruction of Robert Hooke's thermoscope for measuring ocean temperature

1977

Sample of Globigerina ooze collected by HMS Challenger, 1872-1876

1872-1876

Deep-Sea Reversing Mercury Thermometer, 1933

1933

'The First Years' 'Friendly Floatee' plastic turtle, 1990-1992

1990-1992

'The First Years' 'Friendly Floatee' plastic beaver, 1990-1992

1990-1992

Acoustic Sea Bottom Sonar Beacon, 1967

1967

Standard Admiralty water-bottle of the type used on HMS Porcupine

1869

Reversing thermometer with Magnaghi frame for taking sea temperatures at depth by Negretti and Nambra

1896

Sample of Globigerina ooze collected by HMS Challenger, 1872-1876

1872-1876

Model of Stellwagen's Cup Lead Sounder, 1820

1820 (original)

Terrestrial globe with marked ocean currents

1801-1900

Water sampler by Max Marx

Sigsbee waterbottle

1875-1885

Pettersson waterbottle

1911

'The First Years' 'Friendly Floatee', plastic duck, 1990-1992

1990-1992

'The First Years' 'Friendly Floatee' plastic turtle, 1990-1992

1990-1992

'The First Years' 'Friendly Floatee', plastic duck, 1990-1992

1990-1992

Water Sampler, Ex Arctic Expedition, 1818

1818

Detaching claws and sinker weight for depth sounding, made by Carmelo Bonnici

1857

GLORIA (‘Geological Long-Range Inclined Asdic’), and ancillary equipment, designed at the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Wormley, UK, 1993. This instrument, sometimes known as GLORI-B, was the last of four GLORIA devices to be constructed between 1965 and 1993.

GLORIA (‘Geological Long-Range Inclined Asdic’)

1993

Lucas sounding machine for paying out wire in order to gauge the depth of the sea floor, invented by Francis Robert Lucas, United Kingdom, c.1878.

Lucas sounding machine for gauging depth of the sea floor

1878

Bottle carrier, Carruthers bottle

Wigzell's sea sounding instrument, 1905

1905

Current meter by Massey, c. 1870

1870

Water bottle

Bottom sampler

Dobbie-McInnes depthometer

Sounder - hollow lead cylinder with internal flaps

Sonic hydrophone with cable reel

Water bottle marked S.93

Wooden case with rectangular bucket of messengers

Harvey Apparatus

1942