Blog: Drop Box of Curiosities

tags: 1949, plongeur, scaphandre
original: https://dropboxofcuriosities.tumblr.com/post/84196367661
Scuba diver with an umbrella, 1949. In 1943, Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau invents, with Emile Gagnan, the first commercially successful open circuit type of Scuba diving equipment, the aqualung.
tags: 1949, plongeur, scaphandre
original: https://dropboxofcuriosities.tumblr.com/post/84196367661