BETTER THAN DIVING.
A Swedish engineer, M. Waller, of Stockholm, being employed to attempt tbe raising of a sunken ship, has invented an apparatus intended to enable workmen to labour at a great depth in the same physiologies conditions as if they were in a pit or shaft, open to the sky. The device consists of an iron tube, made of sections bolted to«other, and fifty-six metres (184 feet) long. At the lower end, which is closed, the tube 1* enlarged. In this enlarged space several persons may work ; they reach it by means of a ladder in the tube. The chamber has a certain number of windows, closed by solid plates of glass that permit those within to see objects outside, which are illuminated by electrio lamps hanging outside the walls of the tube. Levers that can be manipulated from the interior serve to seize, cut, draw up, attach chains and ropes, &o.; these are tho arms or tentaoles of this mechanical monster of the ocean depths. A sufficient amount of ballast is, of course, fastened to the system to cause it to descend and to hold , it still when it has reached bottom.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9669, 6 March 1897, Page 2
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195BETTER THAN DIVING. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9669, 6 March 1897, Page 2
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