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Old 03-31-11, 09:15 AM   #7
ridgewayranger
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Hi,
They were certainly known about since British escorts used a bathythermograph to find the layer. It had a pressure and temperature sensitive unit into which a smoked glass slide was fitted, on which a stylus created a graph, which could be read against a scale. It was trailed on a wire when the information was needed.
Submarines had a setup similar to a barograph and knew where that layer was,if it existed,when in hazardous situations.
RR
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