Diving machine and diving suit
Date
1799
Creator
Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
9183
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 130mm
width (print): 130mm
Subject
Description
Cross section of a diving machine, containing air being supplied to a suited diver standing on an external platform.
The author stated that ‘The figure (Plate III) represents the machine, which consists of a hollow cylinder, terminating in two hollow truncated cones…[the diver] can obtain air from the space within it, which contains 58 cubic feet. He may, therefore, remain under water two hours; descend from the stage at pleasure, move about with freedom, and, by means of the machinery within, rise and descend when he thinks proper…’.
Plate 3, illustrating the paper: ‘Description of an apparatus proposed to be applied to M. Klingert’s diving machine, to enable it to be used at greater depths than it otherwise could’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.3, (1799) pp.171-175.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.III. Vol. III’. Inscribed below right: ‘Lowry Sculp’.
Karl Heinrich Klingert (1760-1828), German-Polish engineer and inventor, based in Wrocław, Poland [formerly Breslau, Germany]
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
The author stated that ‘The figure (Plate III) represents the machine, which consists of a hollow cylinder, terminating in two hollow truncated cones…[the diver] can obtain air from the space within it, which contains 58 cubic feet. He may, therefore, remain under water two hours; descend from the stage at pleasure, move about with freedom, and, by means of the machinery within, rise and descend when he thinks proper…’.
Plate 3, illustrating the paper: ‘Description of an apparatus proposed to be applied to M. Klingert’s diving machine, to enable it to be used at greater depths than it otherwise could’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.3, (1799) pp.171-175.
Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.III. Vol. III’. Inscribed below right: ‘Lowry Sculp’.
Karl Heinrich Klingert (1760-1828), German-Polish engineer and inventor, based in Wrocław, Poland [formerly Breslau, Germany]
Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.
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