Diving bell used for salvage operations on the wreck of H.M.S.Thetis Size:L: 80 x 60cm Leicester Square

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John Heaviside was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1797

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Diving bell used for salvage operations on the wreck of H.M.S.Thetis Size:L: 80 x 60cm Leicester SquareMaritime scene showing a diving bell stage or platform suspended from a hawser and cables stretched across the cove at Cape Frio [Cabo Frio] in the State of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, where H. M. S Thetis sank. The platform is manned by members of the crew of H. M. S Algerine, two of whom are operating a fire engine hand pump supplying air to a diving bell. The bell is being lowered through a trap door in the platform and the feet of a diver manning the