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Image number: RS.9830
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Submarine diving suit
Date
1736
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height (painting): 225mm
width (painting): 363mm
width (painting): 363mm
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Description
View of a diver, through a section of a proposed diving suit. The diver is shown working on the sea-bed, his body encased but his arms protruding through the suit to work with a tool [“the arm-ports lined with sticking Plaister...” according to the supporting text]. The suit has a glass viewing port and is supplied with air by a tin tube with an outlet near the diver’s face and the whole is tethered by a rope. From the manuscript paper “The submarine, an engine for conveying air under water”, by William Barlow. Not signed.
Royal Society Register Book Original, vol.19 1734-1736, pp.442-446. The paper was read before the Royal Society on 27 May 1736, but not published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Royal Society Register Book Original, vol.19 1734-1736, pp.442-446. The paper was read before the Royal Society on 27 May 1736, but not published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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