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Return to 1915 in timeline 1915 William Phillips Thompson Thompson’s patent shows a protective shell over the ball joints of a diving suit. The reason may be that the joints have a high precision and once damaged the surface can no longer seal on the seals. The...
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Return to 1902 in timeline 1902 Enos B. Petrie USA Petrie’s patent focuses on the freedom of movement of the joints. To this end, he provides the joint with a ventilation channel to the inside of the suit. He does not specifically address the issue of making the...
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Return to 1904 in timeline 1904 Jean Claude Malatray from France The diving suit covered by the invention enables the diver to descend to very great depths and to carry out the necessary movements. It consists of an all-metal armour which protects all parts of...
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Return to 1903 in timeline Alphonse Carmagnolle (dit Karl) 1903 France The Carmagnolle brothers (Theodore and Alphonse) already in 1882 built the world famous diving suit with a large number of viewing windows similar to this patent. However, the construction differs...
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Return to 1897 in timeline 1897 Arthur McQuillan from Australia The invention of Arthus McQuillan relates to certain improvements in the mode of constructing diving dresses so as to enable them to resist the pressure incidental to deep diving, and consist essentially...
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Return to 1904 in timeline 1904 Enos B. Petrie and Joseph E. Martin ADS pump Petrie and Martin developed an air-powered water pump to pump water out of their atmospheric diving suits. They claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent1. The combination with a...
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Return to 1904 in timeline 1904 Joseph von Miniszewski from Germany Miniszewski patented an atmospheric device in 1904 that is not actually anthropomorphic and does not belong in this list. The idea looks very much like a submarine. The patent shows that the ball...
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Return to 1897 in timeline 1897 Deep Sea Diving Company Limited Australia The Deep Sea Diving Company Limited patented an atmospheric diving suit in 1897 where the atmospheric character was not realised. The patent describes a suit in which the movement of the joints...
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Return to 1925 in timeline Verena Winifred Holmes from England Verena Winifred Holmes (1889–1964), an English mechanical engineer and inventor, the first woman member elected to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (1924). Born in 1889 in Ashford, Kent, Verena...
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Return to 1922 in timeline A. Schrader’s Son Inc. USA Manufacturer Schrader’s Son Inc is a still in business manufacturer of copper diving helmets. In 1922 Maximillian Charles Schweinert applied for a patent for his invention. Divers at depth are bothered...
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Return to 1922 in timeline 1922 M. Joseph de Saint Martin France An extremely imaginative approach by Joseph de Saint Martin. His idea of cushioning the water pressure by putting a skeleton-like construction around the diver shows a lot of imagination. The suit will...
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Return to 1921 in timeline 1921 Manfred Carlon from Stockholm Sweden Another patent for a movable coupling that could be used for various purposes including diving suits. Like Drager’s patent, the search for the ideal coupling continued and was finally solved by...
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Return to 1920 in timeline 1920 J. Vaimel maritime museum Estonia I have not been able to find much information about this copper diving suit. It is on display in the Estonian Maritime Museum with the text that the suit was made by L. Vain in 1920 and has never been...
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Return to 1919 in timeline James F. Long Texas USA The patent of James F. Long from Texas USA shows an ADS where the waterproofing is obtained by covering the metal suit with waterproof fabric. No other innovations can be found in the patent claim. Supply and return...
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Return to 1926 in timeline 1926 Bernhard Dräger universal Joint Approximately three years before Peress introduced the oil-filled hinge in 1929, Bernhard Dräger patented a cardan-type joint that formed a seal with two diaphragms. It is doubtful whether the joint...
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Return to 1922 in timeline 1922 Walter Carlitscheck and Otto Zander Germany Carlitscheck and Zander designed a system whereby the exhaled air of the diver could be brought outside the suit through an ejector system. This eliminated the return hose that had to be run...
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Return to 1926 in timeline 1926 Hermann Ahrens from Germany Once again, the concept emerges of cladding a metal suit with a rubber seal. Ahrens sees the problem that the rubber will be pressed between the hinge points with great force by the water pressure. Ahrens...
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Return to 1923 in timeline 1923 Octave Quenault and Gabriel Roux, France Strangely enough, the Frenchmen Octave Quenault and Gabriel Rouxin 1923 fell back on an old concept. They designed a metal diving suit over which a rubber suit had to be put on. The idea of...
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Return to 1918 in timeline 1918 William John Mellersh-Jackson for the Leavitt company In 1918 William John Mellersh-Jackson filed a patent application working at Haseltine Lake & Co in London for the Leavitt Company USA for a breathing system to be used in...
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Return to 1924 in timeline 1924 Maxwell McGuinness and Herbert Tasman Davies Whether the fantasies of Davies and Mc Guinness ever came to reality is doubtful. Their design of a pneumatically operated atmospheric diving suit does not seem very realistic. In fact, they...
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Return to 1904 in timeline 1904 Jaques Franc et Eugene Galaup The diving suit, the object of the invention, is an apparatus designed to protect divers against the pressure of the water mass when they descend to great depths. In ordinary diving suits, the air,...
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Return to 1928 in timeline 1928 Ernest Reginald Clifford from Victoria Australia E.R. Clifford patented a divers’ dress comprises an inner and outer rigid corselet and an inner and outer rigid helmet, the space between forming an outer high pressure zone to...
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Return to 1895 in timeline John MacLeod diver from Glascow John MacLeod diver from Glascow patented his invention in 1895. His invention consists of a metal diving suit in which an upper part fits over the shoulders and on which the helmet is screwed. The chest piece...
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Return to 1929 in timeline Karl Hipssich 1929 The suit by Karl Hipssich clearly shows great flexibility at the time the patent drawing was made. As far as we know, the suit did not become a great success, which is highly understandable with today’s knowledge....
