Charles Dwight Sigsbee (1845-1923),US naval officer and oceanographer. Sigsbee is best known as the captain of the USS Maine,whose explosion in Havana,Cuba,in February 1898 was one of the catalysts for the Spanish American War. Between 1875 and 1878 he worked on the Coast Survey for the Naval Academy Hydrographic Office. During this time he invented the Sigsbee sounding machine for measuring the depth of water. This device became the standard equipment for deep sea sounding and was used for the next 50 years | |
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