a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
1849 – Diving Bell – Avery Richards and John Walcott Deep-sea-diving bell Publication number US6250 A Publication type Grant Publication date Apr 3, 1849 Inventors J. Avery Richards and John W. Walcott Description To all whom t may concern Be it known that we, J. AVERY RICHARDS and JOHN W. WALCOTT, of Boston, in …
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The NEWTSUIT by R. T. "Phil" Nuytten. Phil Nuytten poses with his NEWTSUIT. Jacques Cousteau with a Newtsuit. Phil Nuytten has been instrumental in the development and current acceptance of Atmospheric Diving System technology. In 1977, he began work on a revolutionary new one-atmosphere diving suit that resulted in a patented break-through …
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Interesting deep-sea armour dating from 1912. Little is known about this apparatus. From Mechanix Illustrated, August 1938. Similar to Connelly's suit from 1934. Unknown suit in museum. Believed to be an unused suit from Tallinn in Estonia. Unknown illustration of an ADS with remote arms. See other early Underwater Robots here.
Patent name: Wall structures such as for use in deep diving apparatus Publication number US4164042 A Publication type Grant Application number US 05/851,416 Publication date Aug 14, 1979 Filing date Nov 14, 1977 Priority date Nov 18, 1976 Also published as CA1060500A1, CA1098651A1, DE2751344A1, DE2751345A1, US4167792 Inventors Alistair L. Carnegie Original Assignee Normalair-Garrett (Holdings) …
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Roberto Galeazzi Sr. with his suit. In the early 1920s, the Frenchman Alain Terme acquired a Neufeldt and Kuhnke suit for undertaking attempts to locate several shipwrecks with valuable cargoes. One of them was the Egypt. In 1924 the famous Italian company SO.RI.MA. (Società Ricuperi Marittima) was founded, more or less with the same objective. …
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