Experiments with new life-saving apparatus on the Thames, 1869. Demonstration of '...Captain J. B. Stoner's apparatus for saving life at sea in case of Stoner is an officer of the Federal army of the United States; and his representative or agent now in London is Mr. Craddock, also an American, who is accompanied by his apparatus is a dress which may be worn above the ordinary clothes, and which a large flexible cork [and] an indiarubber garment, made in one piece, covering the whole person from head to [Also supplied is] a tin case or
Experiments with new life-saving apparatus on the Thames, 1869. Demonstration of '...Captain J. B. Stoner's apparatus for saving life at sea in case of Stoner is an officer of the Federal army of the United States; and his representative or agent now in London is Mr. Craddock, also an American, who is accompanied by his apparatus is a dress which may be worn above the ordinary clothes, and which a large flexible cork [and] an indiarubber garment, made in one piece, covering the whole person from head to [Also supplied is] a tin case or [which] may be stored with biscuits, sandwiches, sausages,...a flask of brandy, some tobacco, or anything else to keep a man alive for a week. Or he may have a loaded revolver to kill sharks and and Mrs. Craddock only took three minutes and a half to attire themselves in the complete floating dress, and to jump from a barge into the river at Cremorne [Gardens]. Vanishing for one moment beneath the water, they promptly reappeared, as secure and comfortable as if they sat in two chairs upon Illustration shows Mr. Craddock, in his floating dress, standing on the deck of the Mrs. Craddock is still in the water'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.
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