First closed diving helmet and breastplate
- designer:
- John Deane
- modifier:
- Augustus Siebe and
- Augustus Siebe and
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First diving helmet, by Augustus Siebe, 1839. For use with closed diving dress, based on suggestions by John Deane.
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First closed diving helmet and breastplate, as developed by Augustus Siebe, England, 1839, from an earlier design by from an design by George Edwards. For use with closed diving dress, based on suggestions by John Deane.
Diving helmet made by Augustus Siebe, 1839. For use with closed diving dress, based on suggestions by John Deane
Details
- Category:
- Protective Clothing
- Object Number:
- 1881-47
- Materials:
- asbestos, copper (alloy), glass, leather
- type:
- helmet
- taxonomy:
-
- furnishing and equipment
- costume
- credit:
- William Augustus Gorman
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