Aqua-Lung cylinder set and packaging, detail

1943

Aqua-Lung cylinder set and packaging, detail

A second view of a preserved Cousteau-Gagnan set. The demand valve was Emile Gagnan's miniaturisation, built in bakelite in 1942 to meter wood gas into car engines during the petrol requisition, not for diving.

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