Design for a diving bell Product:Postcard 6th January 1968

6th January 1968

The York and Lancaster towers at Windsor Castle

Muhammad Ali is fighting his way back to fitness in his Bahamas training camp

Ian Wright

Surrounded by other seated figures

Design for a diving bell Product:Postcard 6th January 1968Unpublished plate from a paper on the art of diving by Anthony Fothergill FRS (1737 1813) and Granville Sharp. Submitted to Dr William Watson for publication in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, but not printed. The scheme shows an upturned boat with a single passenger. The boat is held in a wooden frame and a weighted rope is passed through its keel. By operating a pulley system, the diver supposedly can raise and lower the