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| Date | Name | Thumbnail | Size | Description | Versions |
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| 07:17, 9 February 2024 | Victor Kullberg marine chronometer - Royal Museums Greenwich.jpg (file) |  |
6 KB | 1 | |
| 08:20, 9 February 2024 | Aquapack CTD deployment.jpg (file) |  |
366 KB | 1 | |
| 08:55, 18 April 2024 | POL-aerial view 1986.png (file) |  |
196 KB | Aerial image of the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (Bidston), later named the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, taken in 1986. Note thee domes had been painted black for economic reasons, they were white initially and subsequently to keep the domes cool. | 1 |
| 09:05, 18 April 2024 | ICOT model 600x.jpeg (file) |  |
62 KB | The architectural model of the Institute for Coastal Oceanography and Tides (ICOT) showing the preliminary design of the proposed new building. The actual building constructed in 1875 was substantially smaller. | 1 |
| 09:07, 18 April 2024 | Proudman Building Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Bidston Hill - geograph.org.uk - 335675.jpg (file) |  |
34 KB | Tha 'new' building built in 1975, named the Proudman Building on its official opening in 1978 | 1 |
| 09:21, 18 April 2024 | Proudman Building.jpg (file) |  |
34 KB | Proudman Building built in 1975 and demolished in 2013 | 1 |
| 04:23, 16 May 2024 | Temperature sensors Mk1 bottom pressure recorder.jpg (file) |  |
232 KB | Spare temperature sensors for the original deep sea tide gauge (Mk1) | 1 |
| 11:42, 17 May 2024 | Doodson-Lege TPM.png (file) |  |
580 KB | The Doodson-Lege Tidal Prediction machine was in use until the 1960s when digital computers became available. IIt was later exhibited in the foyer of the Proudman Building at Bidston until the Proudman Oceanographic Institute moved to the Liverpool University campus in 2004 and then stored at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool before being refurbished in 2015 and installed at the 'Tide and Time' exhibition at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool. | 1 |
| 11:46, 17 May 2024 | Bidston Kelvin TPM.png (file) |  |
335 KB | Bidston Kelvin TPM used by Doodson for the tidal predictions for the D-Day landings. Now at SHOM in Brest, France | 1 |
