The Bends

John Phillips • Yale University Press • ISBN-13 978‑0300071252

The Bends coverThe Bends cover

The Bends

John Phillips • Yale University Press

ISBN-10: 0300071256 · ISBN-13: 978‑0300071252

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With the invention of compressed air in the 1840s, human divers could enter previously inaccessible deep water environments and engineers could design underw

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Publisher: Yale University PressPages: 272

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Author: John Phillips

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Inferred: Diving HistoryInferred: History Of ScienceInferred: History Of TechnologyInferred: Industrial HistoryInferred: Maritime EngineeringInferred: Underwater EngineeringInferred: Compressed AirInferred: Industrial TechnologyInferred: Decompression SicknessInferred: Nineteenth-Century Engineering

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