Bathythermograph Slides

Wooden box, painted grey on the outside, lined with green baize, with four rows of slots for holding slides. The wooden box contains 89 glass bathythermograph slides, Patt A1042.

The smoked glass slides in a bathythermograph were used to obtain a record of temperature as a function of depth. Slides were used with bathythermographs NAV1769, NAV1965, NAV1964 and/or NAV1968.

Object Details

ID: NAV1765
Collection: Oceanography
Type: Bathythermograph Slides
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1953-1963
Credit: Transferred from the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Deacon Laboratory
Measurements: Overall: 68 mm x 267 mm x 192 mm