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Diving bell   /dˈaɪvɪŋ bɛl/   Listen
Diving bell

noun
1.
Diving apparatus for underwater work; has an open bottom and is supplied with compressed air.





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... diving bell we read of was a very large kettle suspended by ropes with the mouth downwards, and planks fixed in the middle of its concavity. Two Greeks at Toledo in 1583, made an experiment with it before Charles V. They descended in it with a lighted ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, - Issue 377, June 27, 1829 • Various


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