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Title: Ekman current meter
Date Created and/or Issued: between 1903 and 1942
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Charles Atwood Kofoid Papers
Rights Information: Public Domain
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description: The Ekman current meter is a mechanical flowmeter with a propeller and a mechanism to record the number of revolutions, a compass and a recorder to record direction, and a vane orienting the meter so the propeller faces the current.
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Charles Atwood Kofoid Photographs, 1891-1965
Type: image

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