Design for a diving bell Product:Postcard Sir Michael Hicks Beach and

Sir Michael Hicks Beach and

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The York and Lancaster towers at Windsor Castle

Design for a diving bell Product:Postcard Sir Michael Hicks Beach andUnpublished plate from a paper on the art of diving by Anthony Fothergill FRS (1737 1813) and Granville Sharp. Submitted to Dr William Watson for publication in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, but not printed. The scheme shows an upturned boat with a single passenger. The boat is held in a wooden frame and a weighted rope is passed through its keel. By operating a pulley system, the diver supposedly can raise and lower the