History Student needs help

[College Diver]

Thanks everyone for all of your input on this subject, it has been VERY helpful.
For those who offered additional help with resources, I may end up sending a PM to you over the weekend, if need arises.

I really do appreciate all of your help

Thanks

 

[Gilldiver]

If you would like to talk with Doctor Bill Hamilton on the development of the tables, PM me and I will give you his contact info.

Pete

 

[lmorin]

Read "Neutral Buoyancy" by Tim Ecott (published in 2001) for a compilation of dive adventures mixed with a substantial amount of history related to diving. For example, it has a picture of the patent application drawing by K. Louis de Corlieu for "rubber hand and foot propellers" from April 6, 1933. We know these items as "fins."

 

[jsmharley]

Has been a lot of great suggestions here, I would add the Navy Dive Manual. Really cool history in the beginning of it and even more. Only down fall is it is a huge download but is free.

 

[h90]

For scuba (not surface supplied) the most important development would be the demand regulator.

Even a CCR unit requires a demand regulator. Therefore both OCS and CCR rely on it.

Good luck with your term paper in your scuba course.

Well there were people diving with a manual valve, so it is possible without so I would say the high pressure pump and the cylinders must be more important.

 

[pickens_46929]

Read "Neutral Buoyancy" by Tim Ecott (published in 2001) for a compilation of dive adventures mixed with a substantial amount of history related to diving. For example, it has a picture of the patent application drawing by K. Louis de Corlieu for "rubber hand and foot propellers" from April 6, 1933. We know these items as "fins."

Yep... good book!

Would add:

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blscuba.htm
http://scuba.about.com/od/history/a/scubahistory.htm
http://www.floridascubahound.com/history_of_scuba.htm
http://www.hawaiiscubadiving.com/home/history-of-scuba-diving-4500BC-1691.html
http://www.about-scuba-diving.com/scuba-diving/history.htm
http://www.divinghistory.com/

Had this book marked from a paper I did a while back.

 

[College Diver]

After doing a little more research, I decided to do the paper on Decompression Theory. The assignment was to research a 20th century technology of interest, and I figure that without the knowledge accumulated through Haldane's and others research efforts, there would be no scuba diving (without the serious risk of loss-of-life) - a thesis I can firmly support.