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Fishing rod float. Lake Baikal. Eastern Siberia. It is impossible to say with any degree of accuracy who first used a float for indicating that a fish had taken the bait, but it can be said with some certainty that people used pieces of twig, bird feather quills or rolled leaves as bite indicators, many years before any documented evidence.
A collection of fishing rods A fly fishing rod Line guides on modern fishing rods Fishing with a fishing rod. A fishing rod or fishing pole is a long, thin rod used by anglers to catch fish by manipulating a line ending in a hook (formerly known as an angle, hence the term "angling").
A float ball (in orange color) Liquid level floats, also known as float balls, are spherical, cylindrical, oblong or similarly shaped objects, made from either rigid or flexible material, that are buoyant in water and other liquids.
Lifebuoy with emergency light on a cruise ship A lifebuoy floating on water. A lifebuoy or life ring, among many other names (see § Other names), is a life-saving buoy designed to be thrown to a person in water to provide buoyancy and prevent drowning. [1]
The floats do this by changing their effective density. The density of any object is given by its mass divided by its volume. The Argo float keeps its mass constant, but by altering its volume, it changes its density. To do this, mineral oil is forced out of the float's pressure case and expands a rubber bladder at the bottom end of the float.
A line from the 17th century Samuel Butler poem Hudibras, whose wording is commonly mistaken to be that of the Bible verse: "Spare the rod and spoil the child" Spare the Rod, a short Disney animated film; Spare the Rod, a British social drama directed by Leslie Norman and starring Max Bygraves