The Bends: Compressed Air in the History of Science, Diving, and Engineering by John Phillips
The Bends: Compressed Air in the History of Science, Diving, and Engineering

John Phillips

The Bends: Compressed Air in the History of Science, Diving, and Engineering

John Phillips

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With the invention of compressed air in the 1840s, human divers could enter previously inaccessible deep water environments and engineers could design underwater mines and monumental bridges that had never been possible before. But a painful, some...

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