sounding machine
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sounding machine
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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The sounding machine was kept running with rather dramatic results; depths jumping from five to thirty fathoms in the ship's length, and back again to the original figure in the same distance.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson
Navigational sounding machine, 272 Newton, 195, 202 Nichol, John, Professor of English Language and Literature, 5 Nichol, John Pringle, Professor of Astronomy, 5, 20, 61, 63 Oersted, 61 Oscillations, electrical, 181 et seq.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray
See that the patent log and sounding machine are in good order.
From Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper
We soon learnt to handle both vessel and sounding machine in such a way as to entail the least possible strain on the wire.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson
These are carried out by Captain Sparrow and Mr. Wright the chief Congo pilot with the aid of a most ingenious sounding machine.
From A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State by Marcus Roberts Phipps Dorman
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