World Firsts
Sep 08, 2021
1 minute
900 BCE
FIRST RECORD
A swimmer with an inflated balloon-like device, discovered on an ancient Assyrian bas-relief, is today housed in a museum in the UK
1680
FIRST CONCEPT
Giovanni Borelli’s plans for a copper tube-based rebreather contained a piston device to
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