1968 – Legged Underwater Vehicle Patent by Hugh A. Ballinger. Underwater vehicle Publication number US3550386 A Publication date 29 Dec 1970 Filing date 28 Mar 1968 Priority date 31 Mar 1967 Inventors Ballinger Hugh Anthony Original Assignee Atomic Energy Authority UK An underwater vehicle comprising a free flooding streamlined body shell attached to a control …
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1965 – CURV Cable-controlled Underwater Recovery Vehicle by Jack L. Sayer Jr. NOTS-Pasadena Scientists Develop Recovery Vehicle from Rocketeer, July 9, 1965. CURV Pays Its Way Recovering Valuable Deep Ocean Ordnance NOTS Pasadena Laboratory has disclosed a new and unique method of reclaiming small ordnance items from the ocean floor. CURV—which sounds like a bend …
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The Telenaute Remote Operated Vehicle. Manipulator arm of the Telenaute. Movietone Newsreel Clip – here – Telenaute preparing for an underwater cave exploration. A commercial French company, the Compagnie Generale pour le Developpement Operationel des Recherches Sousmarines, own a similar craft [to CURV] known as the Telenaute. This is capable of movement in any …
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Publication number US3381485 Publication date 7 May 1968 Filing date 23 Oct 1965 Inventors RALPH KENT CROOKS, JAMES M. HARDENBROOK, RICHARD D. LEIS, JAMES C. SWAIN and DAVID L. THOMAS Original Assignee Battelle Development Corp General purpose underwater manipulating system ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A cable-suspended, remote-controlled manipulating device for operation underwater. The apparatus includes propulsion means, TV camera, clamping …
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Source: The Advanced Handbook of Robotics, Safford. Source: Popular Mechanics, Aug, 1963. Source: Teleoperator Operations. The MOBOT (MObile roBOT) was developed by Hughes Aircraft Company and is used by Shell Oil Company of California as an underwater wellhead manipulator. MOBOT, which is shown in Figure 16, consists of an electro-hydraulic vehicle designed to be …
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