a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
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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Various Diving Armour by Neufeldt and Kuhnke. Introductory note: I've [i.e. cyberneticzoo] had a lot of difficulty in arranging found images into the three generations of suit as mentioned in other sites featuring Neufeldt and Kuhnke armoured suits. Some of this is due to the difficulty in dating some of the images, as well as …
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1906 – Diving Armour by- Friedrich Gall Invention name: Aus einem Panzer bestehende Taucherrüstung, deren Glieder durch wasserdicht abschliessende Kugelgelenke miteinander verbunden sind. [Google translation- From an existing tank armor diver whose members are connected by waterproof final ball joints.] Publication number DE193397 C Publication date Dec 19, 1907 Filing date Feb 13, 1906 …