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Diving bell   /dˈaɪvɪŋ bɛl/   Listen
adjective
Diving  adj.  That dives or is used or diving.
Diving beetle (Zool.), any beetle of the family Dytiscidae, which habitually lives under water; called also water tiger.
Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above.
Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine.
Diving stone, a kind of jasper.






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"Diving bell" Quotes from Famous Books



... diving bell we read of was a very large kettle suspended by ropes with the mouth downwards, and planks fixed in the middle of its concavity. Two Greeks at Toledo in 1583, made an experiment with it before Charles V. They descended in it with a lighted ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, - Issue 377, June 27, 1829 • Various



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