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Definition of Diving dress
1. Noun. A weighted and hermetically sealed garment supplied with air; worn by underwater divers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diving Dress
Literary usage of Diving dress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"The diving dress is peculiarly well fitted ... The invention of the diving dress,
like that of most ... The diving dress, as will lie ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"In 1798 kle.inge.rt of Breslau invented a diving-dress available for depths up
to •JO feet. ... In 1829 August Siebe devised an open-helmet diving-dress, ..."
3. The Noaa Diving Manual: Diving for Science and TechnologySports (1992)
"They received a patent for this system in 1823, and later modified it to "Deane's
Patent diving dress," consisting of a protective suit equipped with a ..."
4. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Harbour Engineering by Brysson Cunningham (1908)
"... in Water Level—Tide Gauges— Current Observations—Floats—Localisation—Hotting
Positions—Diving Operations— Bella—diving dress and Equipment. ..."
5. Submarine Engineering of To-day: A Popular Account of the Methods by which by Charles William Domville-Fife (1914)
"It is known as the " Pipeless," or self-contained diving-dress, ... The pipeless
diving-dress has been designed more particularly for work in flooded mines ..."
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