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Timeline of underwater technology
Timeline
of
underwater
technology
1531
- Guglielmo dives on two of
Caligula
's sunken galleys using a diving bell from a design by
Leonardo da Vinci
.
1772
- Sieur Freminet builds the first
scuba
device, but dies from lack of oxygen after 20 minutes
1801
-
Robert Fulton
builds the first
submarine
, the
Nautilus
1819
- Augustus Siebe invents a
diving suit
which receives air pumped down from the surface
1825
- William H. James designs a self contained diving suit that had compressed air in a iron container worn around the waist.
1876
- Henry Fleuss designs the first working rebreather
1934
-
Charles Beebe
dives to 3,028 feet using a
bathysphere
1943
- Gagnan invents the
regulator
and
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
makes the first
scuba
dive with a compressed-air
aqualung
1948
-
Auguste Piccard
sends the first
bathyscape
, FNRS-2, on unmanned dives
1954
-
USS Nautilus
, the first nuclear-powered submarine, is launched
1954
- first manned dives in FNRS-2
1956
- first
wetsuit
was introduced
1958
-
USS Nautilus
completes the first ever voyage under the polar ice to the
North Pole
and back
1960
- Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh, USN, descend to the deepest known point in the ocean in the
bathyscape
Trieste
1960
-
USS Triton
completes the first ever underwater
circumnavigation
1983
- Orca Edge
dive computer
was introduced.
1985
- The wreck of the
Titanic
was found.
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