diving bell
a chamber with an open bottom in which persons can go underwater without special apparatus, water being excluded from the upper part by compressed air fed in by a hose.
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It might act a bit like the diving bell that protects human divers.
One tiny sea parasite survives 200 times atmospheric pressure | Shi En Kim | September 25, 2020 | Science News For StudentsThat last film, The diving bell and the Butterfly, won Schnabel the best-director prize at Cannes.
J ulian Schnabel, director of Miral , was nominated for an Academy Award for his film The diving bell and the Butterfly.
Peter King Needs to See Our Movie | Julian Schnabel, Harvey Weinstein | March 12, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTI have not risen in the air in a balloon, nor sunk below the level of the sea in a diving-bell.
For hundreds of years men have used a contrivance called a diving-bell for working under water.
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A lady named Morris, of Plymouth, is recorded to have been the first of her sex to venture under water in a diving bell.
Literary Byways | William AndrewsIt was like an open-bottomed diving bell welded to the hull.
The Syndic | C.M. KornbluthOne would think the diving-bell in its now very practicable state might be employed with great advantage for both purposes.
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British Dictionary definitions for diving bell
an early diving submersible having an open bottom and being supplied with compressed air
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