Benjamin Theophilus Moore, a British mathematician and engineer who conducted hydraulic experiments on the Nile in 1873, submitted this model of a water current meter to the U.S. Patent Office in 1875.Ref: Benjamin T. Moore, “Improvement in Ships’ Logs,” U.S.
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Benjamin Theophilus Moore, a British mathematician and engineer who conducted hydraulic experiments on the Nile in 1873, submitted this model of a water current meter to the U.S. Patent Office in 1875.
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Ref: Benjamin T. Moore, “Improvement in Ships’ Logs,” U.S. Patent 169,024 (1875).
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Benjamin T. Moore, On a Current Meter, a Deep-Sea Current Indicator, and an Improved Ship’s Log (London 1876).
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Arthur H. Frazier, Water Current Meters in the Smithsonian Collections of the National Museum of History and Technology (Washington, D.C., 1974), p. 68.
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Currently not on view
- date made
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1875
- ID Number
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PH.308551
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89797
- catalog number
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308551
- patent number
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169,024