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The Historical Diving Society
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The Historical Diving
Society produces facsimile monographs of important works on diving.
These are available by post from the Society (see
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New
Monograph
Triewald's
The Art of Living Under Water
1734 |
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Mårten Triewald
was one of Sweden's most prominent scientists, combining a sharp
intellect with a natural mechanical ability. The period during
which he lived saw the beginnings of the industrial revolution
in Sweden.
He came to England in 1716, and during the next 10 years was
involved in desiging and building some of the earliest steam engines,
improving the ventilation of coal mines, and giving some of the
earliest public lectures on scientific subjects. Returning to
his native Sweden in 1726, he continued his pioneering work in
building the countries first steam engine and giving lectures
on scientific subjects. He formed a diving a salvage company,
which involved setting up a well organised system far in advance
of anything else in Europe. He introduced a new design for the
diving bell, which was the principal apparatus for diving at that
time, and also an array of tools for salvaging wrecked ships.
The Art of Living Under Water and its Supplement provide
a unique insight into the equipment, tools and methods of diving
and salvage used in the first half of the 18th Century, and might
be described as the first manual on the subject. The were very
few monographs on diving published in the 18th Century, but Triwald's
book was the largest and easily the best of them. Furthermore,
it is the best and most detailed book on salvage by divers written
to the end of the 18th Century, and beyond.
This English translation is the first printing of either work
since 1741 and the first edition to appear in any language other
than Swedish. A biography of Triewald and a commentary introduces
his two books. |
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Description of a Diving Machine
Karl Heinrich Klingert |
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Karl
Heinrich Klingert was an ingenious inventor and mechanic,
but an unlikely designer of diving equipment, living as
he did several hundred miles from the sea in eastern Europe.
Nevertheless at the end of the eighteenth century he invented
and constructed several items of diving apparatus, the last
of which was a 'open' helmet that also made use of a cylinder
of compressed air from which the diver was able to breathe
independently of the surface. Klingert's designs, however,
were not put into practice despite their publication in
two of his books.
The 'open' helmet was re-invented shortly afterwards and
led to a revolution in diving; and much later the use of
compressed air for diving became commonplace. Now for the
first time the complete text and illustrations of Klingert's
two books, describing in detail his pioneering diving equipment,
are published in English, together with an authoritative
introduction incorporating much original research by Michael
Jung.
500 numbered copies.245 x 190mm. 51 pages,
8 plates and other illustrations. Case bound with dust jacket. |
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Submarine
Researches
Charles Deane |
| Submarine Researches,
published in 1835, is the first book about diving using
the diving helmet and dress, with air pumped down from the
surface. This apparatus, with little modification, became
the familiar 'hard-hat' or standard dress in use throughout
the world. Originally intended for breathing in smoke-filled
rooms, it was invented by Charles Deane and his younger
brother John, who successfully carried out naval and commercial
salvage, and civil engineering projects under water.
In this book Charles Deane illustrates, with extensive
notes, some of his diving operations. By 1835 he had been
so successful that he mounted a Submarine Exhibition in
London's Regent Street, for which he obtained royal patronage.
A series of huge oil paintings, a collection of artefacts
recovered from wrecks, and the diving apparatus itself were
placed on show. Submarine Researches was published principally
to promote the Exhibition, but it also provides us now with
a valuable record of the first years of the diving industry.
The authoritative introduction by Dr. John Bevan tells
the story of those pioneering years. Charles Deane died
in depleted circumstances in 1848, but his brother John
went on to become the country's foremost submarine engineer,
finally retiring in 1856, by which time the diving industry
had spread across the world.
750 numbered copies. 260 x 200mm. 50 pages,
19 plates and other illustrations. Case bound with dust
jacket. |
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A Demonstration
of the Diving Engine
Jacob Rowe |
| The late seventeenth and early
eighteenth centuries saw an increased interest in the business
of diving, and a proliferation of new designs of equipment.
In the first half of the eighteenth century, a number of
divers used the 'barrel' type of apparatus to salvage goods
and treasure from the bottom of the sea. One of these was
Jacob Rowe, a man of many parts: sea captain, engineer,
inventor, author and diver, but it is as a diver that he
is now remembered. He was a man of great drive and determination,
achieving two remarkable feats of marine salvage, during
an era when underwater salvage was just beginning in earnest.
Here, for the first time, is printed his treatise on diving,
describing in detail how his apparatus was constructed and
used. Not only is Rowe's treatise the first know English
monograph on diving, it is also one of only a handful on
the subject, in any language, written during the eighteenth
century. The publication of Rowe's original manuscript,
together with a recently researched account of his life
and work, throws new light on this aspect of maritime history.
750 numbered copies. 246 x 189mm. 39 pages,
10 plates and other illustrations. Case bound with dust
jacket. |
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Payment details
Triwald's - The Art
of Living under Water @ £24.00
each
Rowe's - A Demonstration
of the Diving Engine @ £18.00
each
Deane's - Submarine Researches
@ £18.00 each
Klingert's - Description
of a Diving Machine @ £18.00
each
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amount to you order:
UK: £3.50/book, Europe: £4.50/book, Elsewhere:
£5.50/book [airmail].
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to 'The HDS'.
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