Sounding Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on the lid of the wooden box reads “BASSNETT’S PATENT SOUNDER / MADE BY / T. BASSNETT LIVERPOOL.” Thomas Bassnett obtained several British patents in the 1890s.
label: Description
content: An advertisement in W. M. Walters, <i>"The Ocean Tramp," and Hints on Keeping Her Afloat</i> (London, 1889) claimed that Bassnett's Patent Atmospheric Sounder "is now being adopted by all the leading Steam and Sailing Ship Owners in the United Kingdom and Foreign Countries."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.316517
label: catalog number
content: 316517
label: accession number
content: 225703
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sounding apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/16 in x 29 7/8 in x 4 3/8 in; 5.87375 cm x 75.8825 cm x 11.1125 cm