For the last #ThrowbackThursday of May, we thought we'd take you to May 1, 1928. In the first photo, well-wishers gathered at the DC waterfront to bid bon voyage to the research vessel Carnegie on its seventh—and final—cruise. "Whistles roared from the harbor craft, and pleasure boats jockeyed for position to escort us down the Potomac…Everyone was impatient to put to sea. In the second image, Carnegie president John C. Merriam bids farewell to Capt. J. P. Ault, who ultimately lost his life when the ship exploded in Apia, Samoa, killing the captain and the cabin boy and ending the expedition. The third image is the map of the cruise that includes some annotations of measurements they took along the way. Link in bio for more info! #ScienceHistory #CarnegieScience #Science #Geophysics #MayDay #CarnegieScienceHistory #History #DCHIstory #DCWaterfront #GhostsofDC #WashingtonDC #EarthScience #terrestrialmagnetism
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