Poster Oceanographic Institute

Poster detailing a brief history of oceanography at Bidston Observatory In 1919, liverpool university tidal institute was formed collecting tide data that programming tide-predicting machines used at Bidston. from 1960's onwards, these tide prediction machines were replaced by computers.

Bidston Observatory tidal studies eventually expanded into oceanographics, joining the Natural Environment Research Council in 1969 and later housing the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)