Robert Davis (inventor)
English inventor of the Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus.
Robert Henry Davis (1870–1965) was an English inventor and director of the Siebe Gorman company. He patented the Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus, an oxygen rebreather, in 1910, building on earlier rebreather designs by Henry Fleuss. The device was intended to allow British submarine crews to escape from sinking vessels.
Quick Facts
- Born
- 1870
- Died
- 1965
- Nationality
- English
- Known for
- Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus
- Patent year
- 1910
- Company
- Siebe Gorman
- Notable publication
- Breathing in Irrespirable Atmospheres
- and in some cases
- also underwater (1948)
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