Captain Enos B. Petrie is the inventor of such a curious contraption.
Now It seems modern inventions have to be complicated mixes of technology, crazy ideas, and offbeat concepts. For call the atention. If you don’t believe us, check out the 11 Craziest Inventors Living on YouTube and Their Weirdest Creations. However, if we travel back in time, we can learn a little more about what being an innovator in the early 20th centurywith a chronicle of the time that is to delight.
An armor to conquer the ocean and start a new era of marine exploration
thanks to one publication of the digital medium Cyberneticzoo we have known a invention patented by Enos B. Petrie and that it could be one of the first diving suits in history. Within the article we can find a chronicle of the newspaper The Brooklyn Daily Eagledated August 23, 1907. Its headline already alerts you to the magnitude of the event:
All diving records were smashed yesterday. A man dressed in metallic armor descends 60 meters deep. He will revolutionize diving.
O.E. Gaudy wearing the “Iron Man” diving apparatus designed by Capt. Enos B. Petrie and Joesph E. Martin in 1907. 🤿 pic.twitter.com/dxHt7OZltX
— History Daily (@historydailypix) September 7, 2022
An Atlantic Ocean estuary, Long Island Sound, witnessed the event and saw how O. E. Gaudythe brave man who donned the 20th century Iron-Man suit, was able to reach more than 60 meters deep and return to the mainland safe and sound. The metallic suit weighed a whopping 200 kilogramswho had to add 40 kilograms of lead to reach the seabed, and used a system of hinges in the area of the shoulders, elbows, knees and ankles to facilitate the work of the experienced diver, who had never tried a similar suit.
The hands, in this case, were used to operate metal hooks, as if it were a primitive robot. The armor could withstand a pressure of almost 100 kilograms and it included a hose that made it possible to eliminate, through the joints, any leak that could slip into the diving suit. In addition, it also included electrical and telephone cables. The helmet was bolted to the body. at chest level.
O. E. Gaudy17 years old, I had no previous diving experience, but he volunteered for such a curious experiment. Previously, the man he had served in the military and acted as an engineer aboard a submarinewhich made him have some experience in diving matters. The adventure ended up being a success and laid the foundations both for modern techniques of divinglos immersion suits that would come decades later and, who knows, for inspire a generation of cartoonists and comic artistssince this armor is reminiscent of Iron-Man’s first appearances in the cartoons of his graphic adventures.
