Abaculi: July 2012

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Emergency Fire Hood (1920)

Breathing Apparatus: Rescue and Protective. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920).

Monday, July 30, 2012

Navy Mask, Mark 1 (1920)

Navy Gas Mask, Mark 1 (Mouth Canister Type.)

Breathing Apparatus: Rescue and Protective. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920).

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Submarine Escape Apparatus (1915)

George David Stillson. Report on Deep Diving Tests. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915).

Saturday, July 28, 2012

The Smoke Respirator (1873)

The smoke respirator "is one of the latest novelties for the use of firemen is employed by the fire department of London It a man to penetrate rooms and vaults when thick and deleterious gases render it impossible for any to venture with or without the extincteur."

Alfred Ely Beach, ed. The Science Record for 1873. (New York: Munn and Company. 1873).

Friday, July 27, 2012

Firefighter, Miner, or Soldier (1920)

A new protective mask for firefighters and others.

"Protecting the Firefighters." Popular Science. 96 (January 1920).

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Experimental Helmet No. 13 (1920)

Experimental helmet model No. 13 for American tank operator, shown with and without detachable padded-silk curtain and visor; guarding against lead splash

Bashford Dean. Helmets and Body Armor in Modern Warfare. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920).

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Rescue Breathing Apparatus (1920)

Oxygen Rescue Breathing Apparatus, New York Navy Yard Type

Breathing Apparatus: Rescue and Protective. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920).

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Aztec Faces (1911)

Three variations of Aztec "monkey face" with "intrusive serpents"

H.J. Spinden. "An Ancient Sepulcher at Placeres del Oro, State of Guerrero, Mexico." American Anthropologist. 13 (1911).

Monday, July 23, 2012

Oxygen Rescue Apparatus (1916)

Oxygen Rescue Apparatus. Prototype, Front View

Oxygen Rescue Apparatus. Prototype, Back View

Oxygen Rescue Apparatus. Prototype, Left Side View

Oxygen Rescue Apparatus. Prototype, Right Side View

U.S. Navy Department Diving Manual. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1916).

Sunday, July 22, 2012

All-Metal Diving Suit (1931)

All-metal diving suit equipped with telephone and electric headlights, for salvage operations at depths of 200 feet or more

Popular Mechanics January 1931 cover image of all-metal diving suit with headlights

"Metal Diving Suit Has Phone and Electric Lights." Popular Mechanics. 55 (January 1931).

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Caleb Pamley. The colliery manager's handbook: a comprehensive treatise on the laying-out and working of collieries designed as a book of reference for colliery managers and for the use of coal-mining students preparing for first-class certificates. (London: Crosby, Lockwood, and Son, 1898).

Friday, July 20, 2012

Tests Through Tunnels (1922)

Army gas mask worn in tests through tunnels on Monongah Division, Baltimore & Ohio R. R.

Arno Carl Fieldner, Sidney H. Katz, Selwyne Perez Kinney. Test of gas masks and respirators for protection from locomotive smoke in railroad tunnels with analysies of tunnel atmospheres.(Washington: Government Printing Office, 1922).

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Masks for Railroad Tunnels (1922)

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Defiance of the Smoke (1876)

Fireman of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade equipped with the Denayrouze Respirator

Eyre Massey Shaw. Fire protection, a complete manual of the organization, machinery, discipline, and general working of the Fire brigade of London. (London: Charles and Ewin Layton, 1876).

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Volatile Medicaments (1884)

Continuous inhalation of a volatile medicament by means of an apparatus worn over the nose and a so called "respirator" is by no means novel idea but the cost and clumsiness of most the appliances devised for the purpose have recently prevented this method of treatment from being carried out upon a sufficiently extended scale to afford a reliable test of its efficiency.

"The Yeo Respirator." Canada Lancet. 17 (November 1884).

Monday, July 16, 2012

Fly / Fork-Grinder (1885)

John George Wood. Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature. (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1885).

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Respiratory Veil (1881)

George Black, ed. Household Medicine: A Guide to Good Health, Long Life, and the Proper Treatment of All Diseases and Accidents. (London: Ward, Lock, and Company, 1881).

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Ori-Nasal Respirator (1881)

George Black, ed. Household Medicine: A Guide to Good Health, Long Life, and the Proper Treatment of All Diseases and Accidents. (London: Ward, Lock, and Company, 1881).