diving-bells

Steam-carriages, hydraulic engines, diving-bells, which we have regarded with so much complacency as our peculiar property, worked their wonders in the teeming brain of an old monk who lived six hundred years ago.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

We described the method of using diving-bells in a previous number, but this new invention is built on an entirely different plan, and can accomplish results never before dreamed of.

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 36, July 15, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

His assistants were unused to managing diving-bells, and when they came to haul him up the derrick got out of order.

James B. Eads Louis How 1910

After visiting Penzance on the conclusion of our work we saw Cape Cornwall (where Whewell overturned me in a gig), and returned homewards by way of Truro, Plymouth (where we saw the watering-place and breakwater: also the Dockyard, and descended in one of the working diving-bells),

Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

So, if we had diving-bells adapted to the spiritual deeps, we should see anchors with their cables attached, as thick as eels in vinegar, all wriggling vainly toward their holding-ground.

Cape Cod 1865

The first diving-bells were made so large that the air contained in them sufficed for a considerable period -- an hour or more.

Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters Francis B. Pearson 1859

These latter machines have not attained to any noteworthy degree of success -- at least they have not yet done either much good or much harm to the human race; but the former -- the "kettles" and the "armour," -- in other words, the "diving-bells" and "dresses" -- have attained to a high degree of perfection and efficiency, and have done incalculable good service.

Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters Francis B. Pearson 1859

I would have such speeches at every market-cross, and in every town-hall, and among all sorts and conditions of men; up in the very balloons, and down in the very diving-bells.

The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 Charles Dickens 1841

If men lived in diving-bells, under the water, and had to provide themselves with air by the use of pumps, there would be an immense source of labor.

Sophisms of the Protectionists Fr��d��ric Bastiat 1825