10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BENTHOSCOPE»
Discover the use of
benthoscope in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
benthoscope and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
DIVE BEG I NS as the benthoscope is lowered into the ocean from deck of an 80-
foot barge rented by Hancock Foundation, Barton's sponsor. Sphere is held by
single hA inch steel cable, which developed kink during testing and had to be ...
Barton's ball, known as a benthoscope, weighs 7000 pounds. Made of cast steel,
it is 57% inches in diameter and is dropped on a slender %-inch cable from a
crane on a barge. Power and telephone lines are fastened to the cable. The
heavy ...
Artist's conception at right shows fish's-eye view of ocean- floor explorer in action.
Main wheels are old cable drums. Ocean-Bottom Cart Explores New World
Barton's benthoscope is hauled up by cable after 340-ft. test dive at Long Beach,
...
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Elements of Marine Ecology
In 1950, in a later version known as the Benthoscope, Barton made a deeper
descent to 1300 m. The next development after the bathysphere was the
bathyscape, invented by Professor Auguste Piccard and able to operate without
cables.
Ronald Victor Tait, Frances Dipper, 1998
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The Silent Landscape:: The Scientific Voyage of HMS Challenger
... the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, Otis Barton decided to build
another sphere and resume exploration. He called the newly constructed sphere
a benthoscope and started testing it in August 1949 off the coast of California.
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Exploring Under the Sea
Challenger II discovered and measured, but did not dive to, the deepest spot in
the ocean in 1949. The approximately seven-mile (11.3 km) deep Challenger
Deep trench is named 60 The benthoscope was lowered into the Pacific Ocean
with.
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The Composition of Sea-Water Comparative and Descriptive ...
... 314 ff Barium, Pacific Ocean, concentration in, 20 Barotropic effects,
measurement of, 344 Barton-Beebe bathysphere, 498 Barton's benthoscope, 499
Bathyscaphs and other deep submersibles for oceanographic research, 497
Aluminaut, ...
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Be a Better Reader: Level C, Reading Level 6
In 1948, the Benthoscope dove \\ times deeper. In 1960, the Trieste dove 8 times
deeper than the Benthoscope. How many meters deep did the Trieste dive?
Read the problem again. Be sure that you know the label that is used with each ...
Record Dive Only a slim steel cable and a still slim- ner telephone wire and
power line linked leep-sea explorer Otis Barton with the vorld above last week as
he sat curled up n his benthoscope, a 5-foot steel ball hat bobbed 4,500 feet
beneath ...
In 1948, the Benthoscope dove li times deeper. In 1960, the Trieste dove 8 times
deeper than the Benthoscope. How many meters deep did the Trieste dive?
Read the problem again. Be sure you know the label that is used with each
number ...
