Figure 9. Sands sounder invented by Commander Benjamin F. Sands, USN, while onduty with the U. S. Coast Survey in 1857. Compression of the spring actuatedlevers, which separated the symmetric halves of the weight which then fell to the bottom. A v
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Photographer: Y. Berard
Credit: Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
Subject: Oceanography
Subject: Historical instruments