Submarine diving suit Product:Greetings card Portrait of the duke (1689-1700)

Portrait of the duke (1689-1700) sitting on a curtain

In the centre Gilpin's wife

TAVISTOCK HOUSE

Illustration from A Monograph of the Ramphastidµ

barges and rowing boats on the Thames

Submarine diving suit Product:Greetings card Portrait of the duke (1689-1700)View of a diver, through a section of a proposed diving suit. The diver is shown working on the sea bed, his body encased but his arms protruding through the suit to work with a tool ['the arm ports lined with sticking Plaister' according to the supporting text]. The suit has a glass viewing port and is supplied with air by a tin tube with an outlet near the diver's face and the whole is tethered by a rope. From the manuscript paper 'The submarine, an