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Return to 1920 in timeline Frank William Walters Canada & New Zealand Frank W. Walters, who first lived in New Zealand and patented another invention in 1917 now patented a Submarine Armor in Canada. What he claim is: A submarine Armor having relatively movable...
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Return to 1930 in timeline 1930 Vivian Roy McBride form Australia The invention of the Australian McBride concerns an injector type air pump with which the inventor can increase the low pressure of the exhaled air in the inner suit of a diver. This allows the exhaled...
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Return to 1922 in timeline 1922 Victor Armijo Campos New York Victor Armijo Campos of New York, a Mexican living in the USA patented an atmospheric diving suit with oil-filled rotary joints which were not pressure-compensated. The suit was reportedly taken to a depth...
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Return to 1921 in timeline Henry D. Deam 1921 USA Henry D. Deam USA 1921 patent 1.377.404 Be it known that I, HENRY D. DEAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Benton Harbor, in the county of Berrien and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and...
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Helium Helium is an important gas for diving because it enables deep diving. It is safer than hydrogen because it is a noble gas and has a weight of 0.17 kg/m3.As the previous section on oxygen and nitrogen showed, these gases pose a problem for the diver at depth....
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1924 Hagenuk Audos MR 3 oxygen rebreather In 1924, Hagenuk worked closely with the manufacturer AUER. The name Auer came from the Deutsche Gasglühlicht-Auer-Gesellschaft mbh Berlin, or DGAG. Audos devices had a long history which is described on this page. Read...
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Inhabad GMBH from Berlin Naszogen apparatus The name Naszogen was chosen by the company INHABAD GmbH from Berlin around 1930. Inhabad introduced a process that did not use gaseous oxygen in cylinders, but a chemical oxygen generating preparation. This process and the...
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Alkali Superoxyde breathing apparatus Around 1904, Prof. Dr. Max Bamberger Friedrich Böck and Friedrich Wantz patented a method of chemically converting exhaled air into clean reusable breathing air. The idea was to be able to use this substance in breathing apparatus...
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Return to 1917 in timeline Rudi de Graff 1917 Little information can be found about Rudi de Graff. The American Russian filed a patent in 1917 which was granted in 1921. Below is written down what he claims in his patent. Rudi de Graff USSR Diving Armor 1917 1. In a...
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Return to 1922 in timeline The following article was written by Giancarlo Bartoli and Faustolo Rambelli, president of The Historical Diving Society Italia 1994-2020. It is my pleasure that Giancarlo, Faustolo and HDSI have given me permission to translate the...
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Around 1930, Inhabad produced a water diving apparatus called the Inhabad O2-350 system. This system made use of oxygen candles that generated 2.5 litres of oxygen per minute. The unit was used to dive to depths of 15 metres (!) on pure oxygen. The unit is supplied...
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Discovered by Daniël Rutherford and at the same time by Carl WIlhelm Scheele nitrogen is a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas. Scheele made his discovery independently, but simultaneously with the English clergyman and scientist Joseph Priestley. However,...
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Bergomi Societa Anonima Milano Bergomi was born in Milan on 3 July 1906, and the production activity is thus confined to the deed of incorporation: “Metal foundries and constructions, fireman’s equipment, installations for flammable liquids”. The...
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Return to 1934 in timeline 1934 Connelly Iron Mike, the History of Iron Mike by Steve Garza PatentOcean City DaysMonday, August 20, 2012Tracking Down Iron Mike Sam McDowell with Iron Mike on the Ocean City Boardwalk Tracking Down Iron Mike He stood there in the back...
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Return to 1933 in timeline Return to History section 1933 Carl Wiley and SS Islander ‘Tell’em I tried to beach her’ These last words of captain Foote started a 100+ years search for the gold of SS Islander Carl Haven Wiley Diving Bell was an invention by Carl Haven...
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Return to 1930 in timeline 1930 Artiglio and SS Egypt Salvage In 1930 Salvage Ship Artiglio entered the SS Egypt. In May 1922 P&O’s steamship Egypt sunk forty miles off the coast of France with a treasure of gold worth more than a million pounds sterling in...
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Return to 1917 in timeline 1917 Frank William Walters F.W. Walter from New Zealand patented an improved diving suit with increased resistance to water pressure. He used metal bands and fabric for this. Later in 1920 he patented a real atmospheric suit made entirely of...
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Return to 1917 in timeline 1917 George Stolle There is not much found about George Stolle. His patent was registered in 1917. He put the design in in 1914. Stolle was a citizen of Kiel Germany.In 1920 he patented another suit with F. Gall.Gall later worked for...
