A Siebe Gorman set above a Cousteau-Gagnan Aqua-Lung
1943
The British Siebe Gorman self-contained compressed air apparatus displayed above a Cousteau-Gagnan set. The comparison shows that the Aqua-Lung was one of several contemporaneous designs, not a solitary invention.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
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