A La Spirotechnique trade card
1960
A business card of La Spirotechnique, the Air Liquide subsidiary set up in 1946 to manufacture the Aqua-Lung. French sources report Cousteau drew a royalty of about five per cent on sales, which is where the money for the expeditions began.
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