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Return to 1889 in timeline 1889 Oliver Pelkey A.D.S. A Design patented in 1889 by Oliver Pelkey, is of little merit. It is not a completely armoured dress, the armour (in two portions) only covering the head and trunk. Over this is worn an ordinary...
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Return to 1890 in timeline 1890 Arthur Hemenger 1890-1893 As an example of this, a dress patented in 1890 by Arthur Hemenger may be instanced. It is better designed than Pelkey’s, for the body and legs are completely armored. The armor is formed,...
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Return to 1891 in timeline 1891 Boucher-Brault Filteau Stiffen the rubber suit on the outside of the sheet metal protected trunk, by adding a number of circular rings around the arms and legs. Joseph L. Boucher and Emery H. Brault and Romuald Filteau’s ...
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Return to 1894 in timeline 1894 John William MacKenzie In an apparatus for use in conjunction with diving dresses, the use of continuous spiral steel bands encircling the body, arms hands and legs, attached to metal shoulder, trunk and foot pieces forming a complete...
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Return to 1894 in timeline 1894 John Buchanan and Alexander Gordon Two Australian inventors, John Buchanan and Alexander Gordon, of Melbourne patented in 1894, a deep-water diving dress of waterproof material, stiffened internally by spiral wires....
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Return to 1896 in timeline 1896 Wilhelm Becker improved ADS The Buchanan-Gordon plan appears again in a design produced by William Becker, of Paderborn, in 1896. The dress is formed of waterproof material, stiffened internally by metal rings and a complicated...
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Return to 1897 in timeline 1897 Alexander Gordon In 1894 Buchanan and Gordon patented a diving dress. A later patent, taken out by Gordon alone, embodied various improvements in the fastening of the flexible material to the standing portions of the dress,...
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Return to 1897 in timeline John and George Day A very carefully designed dress was suggested in 1897 by John and George Day, of Maesteg, South Wales. The design provides for a completely armoured dress with ball-and-socket joints, kept watertight by “a suitable...
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Return to 1897 in timeline James Baker Pollard Very Little is known about the suit James Baker Pollard from Roanoke State of Virginia patented in 1897. His patent 587604 describes a diving suit or armor with a metallic head section, a flexible shoulder section and a...
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Return to 1904 in timeline Petrie and Martin PETRIE AND MARTIN, 1902, 1903, 1904 Enos B. Petrie, of U.S.A., designed in 1902 an armoured dress having ball-and-socket joints of a somewhat peculiar type. The “socket” portion of the joint was double, and...
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Return to 1898 in timeline James J Devine James J Devine patented a diving suit with a fish-like appereance. The main purpose was to transport a “torpedo” underwater. There was also fin shape reversible in direction for walking on land or swimming....
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Return to 1903 in timeline John L. Watson John Watson designed a diving bell with some interesting futures. The diving bell was equipped with a toolbox placed on the outside of the bell. Also Watson made an escape system for the diver. The cover (G) is connected with...
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Return to 1903 in timeline Wichmann und Zopke Spiral wire armouring makes its appearance yet again in a design by Wichmann and Zopke in 1903. This proposes to encircle the diver’s trunk and tights with flat steel spiral bands drawn tight by a handle-operated ratchet....
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Return to 1896 in timeline 1896 William Robert Fasey A dress proposed in 1896 by William Robert Fasey bears some resemblance to that of the Carmagnolles and to Careys. It is a plate dress with ball-and-socket joints, these being rendered watertight by...
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Return to 1895 in timeline 1895 James Baxter Murray and Stuart Murray and Stuart patented there suit in 1895. They used the old spiral technique and even used three layers to get the suit watertight. They received a GB patent 9755 in 1895. They use barrel-shaped...
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Return to 1893 in timeline 1893 Arthur Hemenger Arthur Hemenger was listed earlier when he obtained a patent in 1890. A later patent of Hemenger’s of 1893 carries the use of spiral wires considerably further. A metal casing is retained for the trunk, but both...
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Return to 1891 in timeline 1891 William Carey The strange-looking suit shown in the figures was invented by William Carey, of Southampton. It shows a plate suit, with ball-and-socket joints, but provision is made for easing the action of the joints by mounting...
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Return to 1870 in timeline 1870 Charles Wilson and C.F. Mudge Charles Wilson and Charles F. Mudge of Bridgeport patented a diving armor in 1870. Unfortunately I have not been able to find more information about there invention. I would be very pleased to receive...
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Return to 1838 in timeline 1838 William Taylor The problem with the Lethbridge gear was that the diver hardly had a possibility to move. This is something that has challenged inventors from that day on until today. The first guy that designed a suit with...
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Return to 1720 in timeline The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries saw an increased interest in the business of diving, and a proliferation of new designs of equipment. In the first half of the eighteenth century, a number of divers...
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1715 1715 John Lethbridge John Lethbridge (1675–1759) invented the first underwater diving machine in 1715. He lived in the county of Devon in South West England and reportedly had 17 children. Dive in 1715 1720 1720 Jacob Rowe In the first half of...
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Return to timeline 1715 1715 John Lethbridge first known atmospheric ‘suit’ John Lethbridge (1675–1759) invented the first underwater diving machine in 1715. He lived in the county of Devon in South West England and reportedly had 17...
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Bergbau-gerät 1923 with breathing operated oxygen addition Inflation and economic crisis force the Dräger Company to close its plant and lay off all its workers. After the end of the war(1914-1918), the market for Dräger products shrinks; the Company is forced to turn...
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Development of the Dräger lungenkraft dossiergeräte During the First World War, the first breathing apparatuses with breath-controlled dosage were designed and used. Examples of these early types are the HSS gerat (link) and Selbstretter Dräger Tübben (link). In other...
