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Description of a DIVING MACHINE suitable for use in rivers [1797] & A Brief Supplement to the History and Description etc [1822]

Name: Description of a DIVING MACHINE suitable for use in rivers [1797] & A Brief Supplement to the History and Description etc [1822]
Author: KLINGERT, Karl Heinrich [1760-1828] trans by Nigel Phillips & Anne Petigrew

Book Description

No 213 in a limited edition reprint [the first in English] of 500 copies of Klingert's 1797 account of his two designs for diving apparatus; his semi atmospheric suit in which he derived his air from the surface by hoses and his second with a large tank of air which enabled the diver to go much deeper. A near fine copy in dustwrapper Quarto 51pps with 6 illustrations and an introduction by Michael Jung

Author KLINGERT, Karl Heinrich [1760-1828] trans by Nigel Phillips & Anne Petigrew

Publisher LONDON The Historical Diving Society 2002

Price: £40.00

Offered by John L Capes

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