"Diving Apparatuses are contrivances by means of which divers are enabled to remain a considerable time under water. As the most skillful divers are unable to remain under water more than two or three minutes without artificial respiration, means have been devised by hermetically sealed helmets, diving bells, and diving dresses, so that they can stay for several hours at a time at considerable depths of water and at the same time carry on their work."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Diving Dress

"Diving Apparatuses are contrivances by means of which divers are enabled to remain a considerable time…