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Return to 1911 in timeline 1911 Chester E. MacDuffee Atmospheric Diving Suit The suit of Chester E. Macduffee is a fantastic suit to see. Although Macduffee patented 4 inventions and pictures of the actual diving suit are still available it is very strange nothing...
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Return to 1911 in timeline 1911 Charles Williamson and his Photosphere Charles Williamson was the father of John Ernest Williamson (1881-1966), an important cinematographer who made the first underwater films. Captain Charles Williamson was the inventor of a flexible...
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Return to 1911 in timeline 1911 Anton Reznicek Anton Reznicek from Vienna patented his invention in 1911 as Austrian patent nr 50212. He described several ways to prevent the rubber cover of a diving armour to get entangled between the joints. By creating space...
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Return to 1911 in timeline 1911 Enos B. Petrie In 1911 Enos B. Petrie patented a sort of umbilical, in fact the air hose with communication integrated. After his inventions in 1902 – 1904 Petrie patented a US patent 984104 describing the following...
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Return to 1908 in timeline 1908 Sydney Hall and Oswald Rees Hall and Rees submarine escape apparatus. Although not directly related to atmospheric diving suits, the invention of a rebreather for escape purposes using Oxylithe is worth mentioning here. Submarine...
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Return to 1908 in timeline 1908 Giuseppe Restucci suits In 1904, the retired technical chief of the Regia Marina, produced a very interesting drawing of an armoured diving suit. His specification described two models that both showed an excellent knowledge of the...
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Return to 1906 in timeline 1906 FR Gall In 1906 Gall patented a dress of rather peculiar shape. Apart from this, it has no features of special interest, except that the diver was provided with armoured and jointed gloves. The main joints were of the...
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Return to 1906 in timeline 1906 Charles Pecourt and M. de Pluvy M. de Pluvy of France made one of the first regenerative type of atmospheric diving suits. Mr. Pluvy claimed to have made several dives to 100 meters with his suit. Although the joints were made of...
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Return to 1906 in timeline 1906 Frank Knoff The invention of Frank Knoff in 1906 does not have much to do with ADS. Knoff designed a suit in dependable of the surface. The invention relates to diver’s apparatus, and has for its object to provide means for...
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Return to 1904 in timeline 1904 Archibald McGregor McGregor built a suit from 3 dresses. No new features in this invention. The suit was simular to the Murray and Stuart suit. A patent taken out in 1906 by Archibald McGregor, of Queensland , recalls...
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Return to 1904 in timeline 1904 Giuseppe Restucci Giuseppe Restucci designed his first suit in 1904. The joints should be made watertight by means of overpressure. The patent he had in 1908 describes a more simple suit, mainly designed for salvaging small items...
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Return to 1856 in timeline 1856 Lodner D. Phillips submarine and ADS builder Lodner D. Philips was a man of varied talents. In his day and age he was known as one of the best under water engineers. He built a number of submarines and designed one that was...
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Return to 1867 in timeline 1867 Thomas Cato McKeen In 1863, the American, T. Cato McKeen, added a large back-mounted air reservoir and fabricated a rubber suit. A ingenious part of McKeen’s apparatus was the addition of a second air system to inflate the suit and...
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Return to 1875 in timeline Lafayette leather and metal suit Siebe Gorman declared that a diving armour made of metal and leather was build in 1875 by Lafayette. The hands are free and the legs were covered along the legs. From Deep Diving and Submarie Operations...
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Return to 1881 in timeline 1881 Stephan Tasker Atmospheric Suit Tasker proposed to use a metal dress articulated with bellow joints, and to cover the whole with an external waterproof flexible dress of the ordinary pattern. S.P.M. Tasker engineer and...
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Return to 1882 in timeline 1882 Carmagnolle Perhaps the most famous atmospheric diving suit in the world is on display in Paris. A patent is mentioned on many websites, but cannot be found in the regular patent search engines. My sister Brigitte Bech-Battais, however,...
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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...
