[Rarebooks] FS: 1890s Baker Deep Sea Diving System - Pair of Mounted Cabinet Photos of Drawings

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

Pair of Mounted Cabinet Photos of Drawings of the Baker Deep Sea Diving 
System.

A rather amazing set of cabinet card photos of drawings showing the 
inside and outside of “The Baker Deep Sea Diving System’, which 
apparently was for use by salvage divers at shipwrecks. Anchored to the 
seabed by rock-filled feet, the ‘system’ is three stories high, plus an 
upper control deck and a sort of observation penthouse. In the cut-away 
view workers can be seen aiding divers exiting through the air lock at 
the base of the structure, while engineers operate the systems that keep 
it going and an off-duty crewman relaxes in an easy chair in the lounge 
and reads a newspaper. The bridge contains, as every bridge should, a 
ship’s wheel, though how exactly that steers this stationary contraption 
is not instantly evident. We have, quite sadly, been unable to unearth 
any further information about this ground-breaking technology which 
appears to have been proposed c.1890-1900.

Two Cabinet cards.  12”x14” [mounts], 7.5”x9.25” [images]. Mount edges 
chipped, minor soil. [45698]  $450

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