Jacques Cousteau The Inventor of Scuba Diving

JUL 28 2017

Jacques Cousteau The Inventor of Scuba Diving

On Cousteau as the inventor of scuba. The demand-valve principle long predates him: Guillaumet designed a diaphragm-actuated demand valve in 1838 and Benoit Rouquayrol built one in 1860 for miners in flooded workings.

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