A diving helmet has played a role on dry land, as well as in the water. Its inventors, brothers John and Charles Deane, patented what they called a “Smoke Helmet” in 1823. It enabled fire fighters to work in smoke-filled areas.
Dry-land innovations led to scuba, submarine inventions
A cannonball that John Deane recovered from the wreck of the Mary Rose. Photo Credit -Wikipedia
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