Buchanan Gordon from Melbourne

Text: courtesy of R.H. Davis

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Two Australian inventors, John Buchanan and Alexander Gordon, of Melbourne patented in 1894, a deep-water diving dress of waterproof material, stiffened internally by spiral wires. A later patent, taken out by Gordon alone, embodied various improvements in the fastening of the flexible material to the standing portions of the dress, such as the helmet; and it also provided for the use of jointed radius-rods running along the sleeves and trousers to prevent them from collapsing under pressure, while leaving them free to flex. This was made in Siebe, Gorman & Co.’s old works in London in 1898. R.H. Davis was present at its trial off the Scottish coast.

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