✦ LIBER ✦
A new closing-net for horizontal use, with a suggested method of testing the catenary in fast towing. With 8 Text-figures
✍ Scribed by Henry B. Bigelow
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1913
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 334 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1434-2944
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✦ Synopsis
With 8 Text-figures.
Numerous attempts have been made to perfect a closing-net for horizontal towing, a historical resume of which has been given by Kofoid,l) probably the most successful being the one devised by Kofoid himself, and in use at the Biological Laboratory at San Diego, California. But although the Kofoid net answers the prime requisites of positive opening and closing at the will of the operator, an unobstructed mouth, and the possibility of locating approximately the level at which it is towed, it is so heavy that