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Bathyscope of c.a. 1850. The instrument which has been popularly named the Water, or Marine Telescope, from the power given by its use to see into the water, consists of a tube of metal or wood, of a convenient length, to enable a person looking over the gunnel of a boat to rest the head on the one end, while the other is below the surface of the water; the upper end is so formed, that the ...
Bathyscaphe Trieste before its only dive into the Mariana Trench The Trieste in 1958. A bathyscaphe (/ ˈ b æ θ ɪ ˌ s k eɪ f,-ˌ s k æ f /) is a free-diving, self-propelled deep-sea submersible, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a Bathysphere, but suspended below a float rather than from a surface cable, as in the classic Bathysphere design.
The Bathysphere on display at the National Geographic museum in 2009. The Bathysphere (from Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús) 'deep' and σφαῖρα (sphaîra) 'sphere') was a unique spherical deep-sea submersible which was unpowered and lowered into the ocean on a cable, and was used to conduct a series of dives off the coast of Bermuda from 1930 to 1934.
General arrangement, showing the key features. Trieste was designed by the Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard, based on his previous experience with the bathyscaphe FNRS-2.The term bathyscaphe refers to its capacity to dive and manoeuvre untethered to a ship in contrast to a bathysphere, bathys being ancient Greek meaning "deep" and scaphe being a light, bowl-shaped boat. [3]
The following year he was promoted from assistant curator to the rank of a full curator, a post he held until 1918. [28] He then went on to serve as an honorary curator from 1919 to 1962. On August 6, 1902, Beebe was married to Mary Blair Rice , better known by her pen name Blair Niles.
A property in the mathematical field of topology; see Full set; A property of functors in the mathematical field of category theory; see Full and faithful functors; Satiety, the absence of hunger; A standard bed size, see Bed; Fulling, also known as tucking or walking ("waulking" in Scotland), term for a step in woollen clothmaking (verb: to full)
This is a list of large optical telescopes.For telescopes larger than 3 meters in aperture see List of largest optical reflecting telescopes.This list combines large or expensive reflecting telescopes from any era, as what constitutes famous reflector has changed over time.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC (/ k uː ˈ s t oʊ /, also UK: / ˈ k uː s t oʊ /, French: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) [1] was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author.