Fathometer
date: label: date made
content: 1941
notes: label: Description
content: The U.S. Weather Bureau, which transferred this item to the Smithsonian, termed it a fathometer, Clausen’s, Russian, 1941. A fathometer uses echo sounding to measure the depth of the ocean or other body of water.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.316264
label: catalog number
content: 316264
label: accession number
content: 224564
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fathometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 32 1/4 in x 3 5/8 in; 12.065 cm x 81.915 cm x 9.2075 cm