Bathythermograph Slides

A bathythermograph slide is a smoked glass slide used in a bathythermograph to obtain a record of temperature as a function of depth. This object is a grey painted wooden box with slots for 200 bathythermograph glass slides. Green baize lining. Containing 200 smoked glass slides, 55 used. Stamped date on inside edge of box 18 Jan 1964. Slides were used with bathythermographs NAV1769, NAV1965, NAV1964 and/or NAV1968.

Object Details

ID: NAV1775
Collection: Oceanography
Type: Bathythermograph Slides
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1964
Credit: Transferred from the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Deacon Laboratory
Measurements: Overall: 51 mm x 298 mm x 231 mm