Definition of Diving bell

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

Generic synonyms: Submersible

Definition of Diving bell

1. Noun. An airtight chamber, open at the bottom, that is lowered on a cable underwater to operate as a base or a means of transport for a diver or a small number of divers. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diving Bell

diviner's sage
divineress
divineresses
diviners
divines
divinest
diving
diving-bell
diving-bells
diving-board
diving-boards
diving-petrel
diving-suit
diving beetle
diving beetles
diving bell (current term)
diving bell spider
diving bell spiders
diving bells
diving board
diving boards
diving dress
diving duck
diving ducks
diving event
diving goiter
diving header
diving in
diving knife
diving mask

Literary usage of Diving bell

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scientific Dialogues for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young People by Jeremiah Joyce (1866)
"... without the Diving-bell by means of certain mechanical apparatus to supply the diver with fresh air and light, and leave him the free use of his arms ..."

2. The Noaa Diving Manual: Diving for Science and TechnologySports & Rec (1992)
"17.1 PRESSURIZED diving bell SYSTEMS Although most underwater habitats are fixed ... A diving bell usually is only one part of an integrated system (Figure ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... h—Plan of DIVIng BelL for admitting ... and toothed racks it ‘The diving bell a is suspended from the bell ..."

4. Reports of Cases Before the High Court and Circuit Courts of Justiciary in by Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Archibald Swinton (1842)
"as charged, for the occasion, with shifting the position of the diving-bell, NO. 63. and seeing it done, to take especial care that the counterbalance to ..."

5. Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy: Considered in It's [sic by George Adams (1794)
"OF THE diving bell. In order to facilitate our power of remaining on the ... Doctor Halley, in a diving bell of his own contrivance, remained fifty two feet ..."

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