<P> An early diving dress using a compressed air reservoir was designed and built in 1771 by Sieur Fréminet from Paris . He conceived an autonomous breathing machine equipped with a reservoir , dragged behind the diver or mounted on his back . Fréminet called his invention machine hydrostatergatique and used it successfully for more than ten years in the harbors of Le Havre and Brest , as stated in the explanatory text of a 1784 painting . </P>
<P> An early diving dress using a compressed air reservoir was designed and built in 1771 by Sieur Fréminet from Paris . He conceived an autonomous breathing machine equipped with a reservoir , dragged behind the diver or mounted on his back . Fréminet called his invention machine hydrostatergatique and used it successfully for more than ten years in the harbors of Le Havre and Brest , as stated in the explanatory text of a 1784 painting . </P>
who developed an apparatus to breathe compressed air underwater
who developed an apparatus to breathe compressed air underwater
Sieur Fréminet
Sieur Fréminet