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Prince Albert of Monaco Campaigns
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History of Oceanography
Expeditions and Cruises
Scientific Campaigns of Prince Albert I of Monaco
Expedition and Cruises
Figure 33. Meteorological register used with hydrogen weather balloons flownfrom the PRINCESSE ALICE II on April 5, 1905 from a station north of Corsica.The balloons and register attained a height of 8000 meters before the balloonsburst and the inst
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Figure 34. Anemometer and dial - an anemometer of this type was shown in thecatalog of the firm of Richard Brothers in 1886.
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Figure 35. A wind direction recording instrument offered by the firm of J.Richard in 1901.
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Figure 36. A modern wind direction indicator or weathervane that would transmit wind direction to a recording device. The use and history of this instrumentis impossible to determine.
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Figure 37. Assman aspirating psychrometer, used to determine relative humidityby comparing dry and humid air temperatures. The instrument was designed onprinciples discovered by the German Ernst Ferdinand August, the director of theGymnasium of Berl
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Figure 38. Hygrometer register, built to record variations in relative humidity. The hygrometer is built on principles discovered by Horace Benedict Saussure in 1783 and uses the changes in length of human hair and animal hair with humidity to derive
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Figure 39. A rain gage - this model was sold by the firm of Jules Richard andappeared in his catalog in 1886.
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Figure 40. Aneroid barometer register for recording the pressure readings of an aneroid barometer. The aneroid barometer was invented by the French instrument-maker Lucien Vide in 1843. This register was constructed by the firm ofRichard Brothers
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Figure 41. Aneroid barometer with register built by the firm of RichardBrothers. This model was meant for use on vessels. This particular instrumentwas used by Prince Albert I of Monaco on board thePRINCESS ALICE and PRINCESS ALICE II between 189
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Figure 42. A thermometer register for recording observed temperatures.This instrument probably dates at least back to the late Nineteenth Century.
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Figure 43. Buchanan hypsometer - this instrument is meant to determine altitude by relating the temperature of the boiling point of water to altitude. Asaltitude increases, the boiling point decreases. The instrument shown uses amethod developed b
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Figure 44. Thermometers used for hypsometry (measurement of altitude). Theseinstruments were graduated between 0 and 100 degrees Celsius. These thermometers were constructed by A Haak in Germany in 1902.
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Figure 45. Quartz spectrograph, meant to photographically meausure the spectrum of various materials under analysis. This instrument was constructed by theParis firm of Jobin and Yvon in 1901. Several of these instruments were made by the engineer
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Figure 46. Manometer register, meant to measure pressure. This device wasconstructed by the firm of J. Richard and meant for industrial applications such as recording the pressure in boilers, of hydraulic presses, etc. It wasapparently constructed
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Figure 47. Viscometer, used to measure the viscosity of a liquid. Thisinstrument worked by measuring the force which opposed the rotation of a disk ora cylinder which was immersed in the liquid.
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Figure 48. Walker log, used to measure the speed of a ship under way. Thisinstrument was towed behind a vessel and the number of turns of the rotor during a given interval was directly proportional to the speed of the vessel throughthe water. This
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Figure 49. Dial of a Marconi radiogoniometer. This instrument was thereading device of a radio direction finder that would allow a ship or aircraftto home in on a radio signal and determine the direction to the transmitter.
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