Impact of the Scientific Revolution on Underwater Tech

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  • Period: Sep 30, 1543 to

    THE SCIENTIFIC REVELOUTION

    1650: Otto von Guericke built the first air pump
  • First Submarine

    First Submarine

    Robert Fulton builds a submarine, the "Nautilus"
  • First Oxygen Tanks

    First Oxygen Tanks

    Canadian inventors James Eliot and Alexander McAvity of Saint John, New Brunswick patent an "oxygen reservoir for divers", a device carried on the diver's back containing "a quantity of condensed oxygen gas or common atmospheric air proportionate to the depth of water and adequate to the time he is intended to remain below".[
  • First Torpedo

    First Torpedo

    Minenschiff, the first self-propelled (locomotive) torpedo, developed by Robert Whitehead (to a design by Captain Luppis, Austrian Navy), is demonstrated for the imperial naval commission on December 21.
  • Futrastic Under Water Homes

    Futrastic Under Water Homes

    First Sustainable underwater homes made.