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Return to 1921 in timeline Joseph Salim Peress Not many inventors have had as much influence on the development of the atmospheric diving suit as Joseph Salim Peress. As early as 1918, after having spent his youth in the Middle East, he began to dream about an...
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Return to 1921 in timeline 1921 Arthur Phelps Marr flexible Arm This invention relates to an improved non-collapsible flexible joint for diving armor and has for its principal object to provide a joint which is so designed as to permit the bending of a limb and yet...
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Return to 1897 in timeline 1897 Henry H. Gorter first ball joint used in ADS As early as 1897, Henry Gorter patented the first ball and socket joint, which was later used in many atmospheric diving suits. Around 1922 a liquid seal was added to this joint which made...
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Return to 1921 in timeline 1921 Josef Kamieniecki USSR/USA Chicago Little can be found about Josef Kamieniecki’s patent. The Russian immigrant who invented in Chicago and also patented in the USA describes a suit using a lot of fantasy. It is therefore doubtful...
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Return to 1912 in timeline 1912 Italian Leone Durand and Melchiorre Bembina from Palermo The dress proposed in 1912 by Leone Durand and Melchiorre Bembina is of a curious type, designed to be towed along the bottom, and to this end is fitted with four spherical oaken...
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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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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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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...
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Return to 1916 in timeline 1916 Miller and Dunn Certainly not a atmospheric diving system, but more a “time” marker. William S. Dunn and William F. Miller patented a shallow water helmet in 1916 with their patent US 1195793. The helmets were...
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Return to 1916 in timeline 1916 William S. Boyd William S Boyd lived in Greatkills Richmond New York in 1916. He patented a new type watertight joint. The improvement against MacDuffee 989530 ‘s invention was a new type of submarine armor especially an...
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Return to 1915 in timeline 1915 Harry Bowdoin Bowdoin, 1915 (U.S.) – Harry L. Bowdoin of Bayonne, N.J., received a patent in 1915 for a new type of oil-filled rotary jointed armored diving suit. The joints had a small duct leading to the interior...
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Return to 1915 in timeline 1915 Benjamin Franklin Leavitt Benjamin Franklin Leavitt build another revival of spiral armouring like Buchanan and Gordon. The radius pieces of the flexible arms and legs add to the resemblance. In this case, however, the spirals form...
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Return to 1914 in timeline 1914 Jean F. Derey Jean F. Deray patented his Divers Suit in 1914.Mr. Deray lived in Sunnyvale Santa Clara USA.He designed a suit he claimed able to dive to 45 meter.In his patent Deray claims the suit was able to be resistant to 80 PSI...
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Return to 1914 in timeline 1914-1918 Ernest Niehoff Ernest Niehoff living in Roanoke Virginia patented his suit in 1914. He called it a diving apparatus that consists of a inner flexible not waterproof metal shell. The apparatus was completed with a helmet and in...
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Return to 1913 in timeline 1913-1940 Neufeldt und Kuhnke Neufeldt und Kuhnke, a German company from Kiel was the first large scale producer of atmospheric diving suits. The company obtained a number of patents and sold their suits during 27 years! I am very pleased...
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Return to 1912 in timeline 1912 Clay Anderson and Myron Silver Anderson and Silver patented their suit in 1912. Not mentioned in books I know of the invention did not offer much news. The suit was Attached to an air supply and was made of metal covered with an...
