Figure 21. Model of Hodge's shock absorber or accumulator. This device wasinvented in 1852 by Richard Edward Hodges. It was used to aid in launching andretrieving heavy objects suspended from cables or ropes, particularly when avessel is subject t
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Photographer: Y. Berard
Credit: Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
Subject: Oceanography