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Discovering & Charting the Gulf Stream: Analog to the Digital Age

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Our Gallery 2 exhibit highlights pioneering oceanographers and the instruments they invented to study the Gulf Stream and global ocean currents. The exhibit tells the story of Benjamin Franklin’s early efforts to chart the Gulf Stream, and the discovery of the original Franklin-Folger Gulf Stream chart in 1978 by scientist Philip Richardson of the Woods ...

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