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Definition of Bathysphere
1. Noun. Spherical deep diving apparatus (lowered by a cable) for underwater exploration.
Definition of Bathysphere
1. Noun. A spherical steel deep-diving chamber with perspex windows, in which persons are lowered to the depths by a cable to study the oceans and deep-sea life; the precursor to the bathyscaphe ¹
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Definition of Bathysphere
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bathysphere
Literary usage of Bathysphere
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventure Guide to Bermuda by Blair Howard (2004)
"The strange- looking sphere you see just outside is a replica of the bathysphere
which Doctor Charles Beebe used for his famous half-mile-deep dive in 1934. ..."
2. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1897)
"the ascending waters came charged with metallic minerals from the bathysphere,
meaning thereby a region in the interior of the earth which is richer in ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1898)
"The original bringing up of the metals from the bathysphere was, however,
accomplished by the eruptive magma before consolidation. Present ore-deposits are ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1897)
"... than to content oneself with assuming simply that the ascending waters came
charged with metallic minerals from the bathysphere, meaning thereby a ..."
5. Ore-deposits: A Sequel to the 2d Ed. of "The Genesis of Ore-deposits," by by Samuel Franklin Emmons, František Pošepný, George Ferdinand Becker, John Duer Irving, H. DeWitt Smith, Henry Gardiner Ferguson (1913)
"... than to content oneself with assuming simply that the ascending waters came
charged with metallic minerals from the bathysphere, meaning thereby a ..."
6. Bermuda Alive! by Harriet Greenberg (2000)
"You can examine instruments used by scientists to study the ocean, including the
bathysphere used by William Beebe in 1934. He descended in it to a depth of ..."
7. Bermuda by Don Philpott, George Watkins (2002)
"In 1934 Dr William Beebe set a new record for a deep sea dive when his bathysphere
descended more than half a mile (0.8km) off Bermuda. ..."
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