LINKAGES

Most of the following sites contain a statement purporting that William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) developed the tide predicter. He did not; Edward Roberts did. Thomson did not produce a predicter until 1881.

Working model of Kelvin's idea:- http://www.ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/tidesIII3.html

Edward Roberts 1873b http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/oceanography/1876-1129.aspx (note the date and attribution)

William Ferrel 1883  http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=170

Harris/Fischer 1910  http://co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/predma2.html

Heinrich Rauschelbach 1915  http://www.dsm.de/2gezg.htm

Heinrich Rauschelbach 1938  http://co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/predma3.html

E. German 1955  http://www.dsm.de/gez/html/die_vorausberechnung.html

Arthur Doodson/A. Légé Co. 1953  http://www.pol.ac.uk/home/insight/doodsonmachine.html

Kelvin, Bottomley, Baird  http://www.kelvinhughes.co.uk/history.htm

Brazil 1910  http://co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/predma3.html

Kelvin 1881 & Rauschelbach 1938 http://www.es.flinders.edu.au/~mattom/science+society/lectures/illustrations/lecture32/tidepredicter.html 

Kelvin 1881 & 2nd Brazilian http://www.riototal.com.br/astros/helga2005-10a.htm

KBB Norway 1939  http://vannstand.statkart.no/hist_tilbake.php 

KBB France 1950  http://www.shom.fr/fr_page/fr_act_oceano/maree/tidepred.htm#1

Tide Gauge history http://tide.gsi.go.jp/ENGLISH/history.html