Depth Sounder (Weight)
date: label: patent date
content: 1878
notes: label: Description
content: William Thomson, a noted physicist and engineer in Glasgow, Scotland, designed various instruments for navigation at sea. This weight is part of is the model he submitted with his application for a U.S. patent for a deep sea sounding apparatus.
label: Description
content: Ref: William Thomson, “Improvement in Deep-Sea-Sounding Apparatus,” U. S. Patent 210,067 (Nov. 19, 1878).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: Scotland, Glasgow
label: Associated Place
content: United Kingdom: Scotland, Glasgow
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.308560.02
label: catalog number
content: 308560.02
label: patent number
content: 210,067
label: accession number
content: 89797
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Weight
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 7/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 86.0425 cm x 6.985 cm