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Definition of Diving bell
1. Noun. Diving apparatus for underwater work; has an open bottom and is supplied with compressed air.
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
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Diving Bell
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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