Title: Gravity‐measurements on the U.S.S. Barracuda
Abstract: Measurements of gravity at sea, accurate enough to be of value in the problems of geodesy and geology, were first made by F. A. Vening Meinesz in 1923. Since that time Vening Meinesz has perfected his apparatus into a standard form and has made many highly important surveys with it [see 1 of references at end of paper]. The Vening Meinesz apparatus [2] contains three bronze half‐second pendulums, all mounted to swing in the same plane. By means of an ingenious optical system, the motions of the three pendulums are combined to give a photographic record of two fictitious pendulums, each fictitious pendulum being independent of small horizontal motions of the apparatus in the swinging‐plane of the pendulums. This instrument is installed in a submarine which submerges, when a gravity‐observation is to be made, and provides a platform relatively undisturbed by wave‐action.
Publication Year: 1937
Publication Date: 1937-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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