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Post by bunkerfan on Feb 22, 2011 10:48:01 GMT
The American scientist and Doctor who invented an underwater breathing system used by the Military in the second world war and later coined the "scuba" has died. Christian J Lambersten was 93 when he died at his home in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. I was just wondering if they'll play Aqualung at his funeral. RIP Mr Lambersten
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2011 17:05:09 GMT
www.divernet.com/home_diving_news/781821/rebreather_inventor_dies.htmlRebreather inventor dies 21 February 2011 American Dr Christian Lambertsen, who created the first rebreather in 1939, has died aged 93. He designed the Lambertsen Amphibious Respirator Unit, a closed system using pure oxygen and fitted with a carbon dioxide filter, as a medical student. It was initially rejected by the US Navy but, by 1942, was in use by the American Forces. Within another year, the first fully automatic, open-circuit aqua-lung had been created over in Europe by Frenchman Jacques Cousteau and French-Canadian Emile Gagnan. In connection with his design Dr Lambertsen, himself a keen diver, worked with the Office of Strategic Services, forerunner of the CIA, through WW2. Developments of his units remained in use by the US Forces for another three decades. He is also credited with having coined the term ‘scuba’, as the result of a paper co-written for the National Academy of Sciences in 1952. It described the "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus", whose abbreviation has long since passed into diving’s vernacular. Post-war, Dr Lambertsen worked at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He became a professor of pharmacology and maintained a special interest in the respiratory system and diving physiology.
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Post by bunkerfan on Apr 7, 2011 15:56:47 GMT
Sorry I meant to post this a week ago but, I forgot....I can't help it, I'M OLD
HARRY COOVER, the inventor of Super Glue, has died aged 94. Mr Coover was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2010 by President Obama. Everyone who has ever used Super Glue has good reason to be thankful to Mr Coover’s invention. I hope Mr. Coover passed away peacefully and didn't succumb to a sticky end.
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