Before we had ALVIN — or proper submarines for that issue — the best way to get to the seafloor was by using a diving bell . Originally made from recycled church bells , these diving event apparatuses protected their passengers from the murky deepness in a house of cards of air . Our friends atOobjecthave foregather nine of the good .
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James Gillray: Going down in a Diving Machine, 1801
McCann Rescue Chamber
cutaway drawing drawing of the gimmick used to rescue 33 sailor from the recessed submarine USS Squalus ( SS-192 ) in May 1939 .
Diving bell from 1700s
diver stood inside this affair which literally await like a Vanessa Stephen and recovered 50 cannon from a sunken ship , without being able to see where they were proceed .
Edmund Halley’s 17th Century Diving Bell
A kind of engineering that is more Pirates of the Caribbean than Steampunk
Alexander the Great Diving Bell
A 16th hundred engraving of Alexander the Great being turn down in a shabu diving Alexander Melville Bell .
Renaissance Diving Bell by Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia
From Tartaglia ’s 1551 : method acting for raising recessed ship , which let in several designs for diving Bell
Diving Bell used by Brunel
Brunel used this to scrutinize his Thames tunnel
George Leybourne’s great song : Down in a diving bell
An unlikely issue for a impinge on song .
1920s Diving apparatus
Not purely a diving bell at this stage , since diving helmet and bells had diverged , but glass spheres in the same vein as those from Alexander the Great ’s clip . This was an representative from the Strand magazine for Conan Doyle ’s Atlantean adventure novel The Maracot Deep .
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