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Edward Massey-patented sounding machine

Edward Massey-patented sounding machine

Scoops from Bulldog sounder and sampler used during telegraph survey operations

Scoops from Bulldog sounder and sampler used during telegraph survey operations

1860

Jaws from Bulldog sounder and sampler used during telegraph survey operations

Jaws from Bulldog sounder and sampler used during telegraph survey operations

1860

Original Neale sounder

Original Neale sounder

Piezoelectric Sounder: PVDF bimorph. Uses Kureha film

Piezoelectric Sounder: PVDF bimorph. Uses Kureha film

Massey's patent, frictionless ocean depth sounder

Massey's patent, frictionless ocean depth sounder

1836

Sounder - hollow lead cylinder with internal flaps

Sounder - hollow lead cylinder with internal flaps

Telegraph sounder

Telegraph sounder

Neale sounder with tubes

Neale sounder with tubes

"Sub Sig" echo sounder type 301/642 recorder

"Sub Sig" echo sounder type 301/642 recorder

1954-1963

Vertical arm, scoop, lid and chain from Fitzgerald sounding machine

Vertical arm, scoop, lid and chain from Fitzgerald sounding machine

1867

direct reading polarised sounder and example of polarised polechanger

direct reading polarised sounder and example of polarised polechanger

1920-1925

Edward Massey-patented sounding machine

Edward Massey-patented sounding machine

Vyle's direct reading polarised sounder

Vyle's direct reading polarised sounder

Neale's sounder

Neale's sounder

Ebel sounder with stylograph

Ebel sounder with stylograph

Sounder using 9 micron piezo film

Sounder using 9 micron piezo film

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

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

1857

Sporton's improved form of Graham Bell's original sounder

Sporton's improved form of Graham Bell's original sounder

Sir William Thomson's Triple Depth Gauge, one of two, 1880

Sir William Thomson's Triple Depth Gauge, one of two, 1880

1880

Morse sounder, 900 ohms, GPO No. 19161

Morse sounder, 900 ohms, GPO No. 19161

Post Office sounder

Post Office sounder

Detaching-weight sounder, possibly early form, designed by Ensign Brooke of the US Navy, USA, 1855-1860.

Detaching-weight sounder, or ‘Brooke’s Rod’, designed by Ensign Brooke

1855-1860

Weight-detaching mechanical sounder for gauging the depth of the sea floor and collecting sediment samples, designed by F. Skead and used on HMS Tartarus, 1857, during telegraph survey operations between Malta and Crete. The original had a 68 lb cannon ball as sinker weight; this object has a fibreglass replica.

Skead's detaching-weight sounder used for telegraph survey operations

1857

Hydra weight-detaching sounder for collecting small samples from the sea bottom, of the type designed by Mr Gibbs, Artificer aboard the sounding ship HMS Hydra, 1868, and used in sounding operations in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Hydra sounders were also employed by naturalists Charles Wyville Thomson, William Benjamin Carpenter and J Gwyn Jeffreys on HMS Porcupine in investigations of deep sea life in 1869.

Hydra weight-detaching sounder for collecting small samples from the sea bottom

1868

Hand lead and deep sea sounding machine

Hand lead and deep sea sounding machine

Triple Depth Gauge, one of two, with tinplate cover, by Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) and James White of Glasgow, 1880

Air-Compression type Depth Gauges, 1880

1880

Vyle's direct reading polarised sounder

Vyle's direct reading polarised sounder