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Josephine G. Fountain

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Maurice Fernez (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • porkfork6 said:
    www.thevarsity.ca/view/print/1543-inventing-the-aqualung Dialog from this webpage stating how Maurice Fernez' device was inspiration for further advances in breathing apparatus. In 1912, Le Prieur watched as Maurice Fernez remained underwater through the aid of a surface pump. Inspired by Fernez’s display, Le Prieur wanted to find a way to do the same thing underwater. Fourteen years later, the two men teamed up and produced the lightweight breathing apparatus that Jacques Cousteau would later refine and popularize.
  • David Newsom said:
    cool
  • swanq said:
    A photo on the 3rd page image (the page is numbered 23) of www.hdsitalia.com/articoli/31_fernez.pdf looks as though it could have been taken the same day. That photo is captioned as taken on August 20, 1912, on the Seine, presumably in Paris. This article about Fernez is in Italian, freely translated from the French by Philippe Rousseau.
  • B-59 said:
    This photo was depicted in The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, September 22, 1912, SECTION FIVE, Image 63 with the caption "Maurice Fernez, a French sailor, has Invented a diving apparatus which is so simple that it will simplify greatly subaqueous work. It consists of a tube, the end of which is fastened tight ly to the mouth of the diver while air is supplied through it to the diver by the aid of an ordinary automobile pump. With this apparatus. Fernez has been to the bottom of the Seine and remained under water for 10 minutes at a time. The apparatus weighs only 14 pounds." oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1912-09-22/ed-1/se...

G. Marconi (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • Scott S said:
    He was a fairly interesting guy.
  • Juffrouw Jo said:
    A hero. Maybe more people could have died if the Titanic had not used its Marconi transmitter and who knows how many countless others were saved in the decades afterwards.
  • Art Siegel said:
    Marconi arrived in New York on the Lusitania on April 24, 1915, the date on the picture. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0CE2DE1338E633A...
  • skillful north said:
    My husband's grandfather came to the US on the Lusitania in 1911 from Denmark via Liverpool. But I be grandpa was in steerage!
  • Jesús Roberto Duarte said:
    On the lower border is scratched in mirror view 4/24/15 (April 24, 1915). The sticker too. Dr. Roberto Duarte