Special Presentation: Creating the First Armored Diving Suit
Join the Museum for a special virtual presentation by German historian Christopher Steinbiß on the world's first armored diving suit.
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FREE
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Event Description
Register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/I1cuFf9sS3itGTdNDwCCbQ
Presentation will take place at 12:30 PM EST over Zoom, with a viewing room available in the Museum's Bauer Diving History Research Library. Christopher will be broadcasting from Germany.
Christopher Steinbiß is a researcher at the chair of Historical Epistemology at Hamburg University. His research interests include the cultural history of technology and modern German history from the German Empire to the Second World War. He is currently working on his PhD-Thesis, studying the history of the HAGENUK Deep Sea Diver and its role in the popular culture of technologies in modern Germany.
The HAGENUK Deep Sea Diver is regarded as the first functioning and commercially used atmospheric diving suit, having been used for a variety of salvage operations, most notably the salvage of the Egypt by the Italian Company SORIMA.
The talk will present new archival sources about Friedrich Gall, the original inventor of the suit. It will explore how the suit was created, and why.