Word: oceanographer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Called the oceanograph, the Rossby instrument has a stylus which makes a temperature-pressure graph on a sheet of smoked aluminum foil. The foil is moved back & forth by a barometer and tension spring hookup which keeps track of the water pressure (hence the depth). The stylus is moved from side to side by a bimetallic thermometer which keeps track of the temperature. Its creators state that the oceanograph is accurate to within one foot of depth and one-tenth of one degree Fahrenheit in temperature. It is to be used on the 142-ft. auxiliary ketch Atlantis, peripatetic research...
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