The amazing story of a diving suit

Before the advent of space suit people he invented and perfected another long suit - diving. The ocean was the first foreign environment, where we sent a representative. And the evolutionary path that passed suit to study the ocean depths, is amazing.

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2. The first device to dive to great depths of the English Astronomer Royal, geophysics, mathematics, meteorology, physics and demographer Edmund Halley, the end of the 17th century.



3. "The bell sank to the bottom. Then, the assistant put on the head of another small bell, and could be a bit like the bottom of the - as far as it allowed the tube through which he breathed in a large bell remaining air. After that were dumped on top of the barrel with an additional supply of air, weighted load. Assistant found them and pulled the bell. "



4. Suit for immersion French aristocrat Pierre Remy de Bova, 1715.



5. One of the two hoses dragged to the surface - done through breathing air; the other served to remove exhaled air.



6. Apparatus for immersion John Lethbridge, 1715.



7. This sealed oak barrel was intended to raise the value to the wrecks. In the same year, another Englishman Andrew Becker has developed a similar system, which was equipped with a system of tubes for inhaling and exhaling.



8. Apparatus for immersion Klingerta Charles, 1797.



9. The inventor tried it in the river, which flows through his home town of Breslau (today Wroclaw, Poland). The upper part of the suit is protected by a cylindrical design, so you can walk on the bottom of the river.

"It consisted of a jacket, trousers of waterproof leather and a helmet with a porthole. Helm was connected to the tower, which was a tank with a supply of air. The reservoir has not been replenished, so that the residence time of the water was limited. "



10. Costume Chauncy Hall, 1810.



11. The first deep-sea diving suit with heavy boots August Siebe (Germany), 1819.



12. The disadvantage was the fact that if the diver had to keep the vertical position, or at the bell could get water. In 1937, the bell was added waterproof garment, allowing the diver to become more mobile.



13. Such helmets were used for over a hundred years.



14. Diving Suit with 20 small portholes Alphonse and Theodore Karmagnol, Marseille, France, 1878.



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16. The apparatus of Henry Flüsse, 1878.

Rubber mask was connected to a sealed tube with breathing bag and a box with a substance that absorbs carbon dioxide from the exhaled air.



17. diver descends to the bottom off the coast of Chile, where the British ship crashed Cape Horn, to lift a load of copper, 1900.



18. One of the first diving suits with maintaining the pressure developed by M. de Pluvault, 1906.



19. Costume aluminum alloy Chester Macduff weighing about 200 kg, 1911.



20. Three generations of diving suits the German company "Neufeld and Kuhnke" 1917-1940.



21. The first model (1917-1923).



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