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Hugh Bradner was born in Tonopah, Nevada, on November 5, 1915, [2] but he was raised in Findlay, Ohio. [1] His father, Donald Byal Bradner, was briefly director of the Chemical Warfare Service at Maryland's Edgewood Arsenal. His mother was Agnes Claire Bradner née Mead. He had an older brother, Mead Bradner. [3]
Hugh Bradner, a University of California, Berkeley physicist, invented the modern wetsuit in 1952. [3] Wetsuits became available in the mid-1950s and evolved as the relatively fragile foamed neoprene was first backed, and later sandwiched, with thin sheets of tougher material such as nylon or later spandex (also known as lycra).
An investigation concluded that UC Berkeley physicist Hugh Bradner was the inventor of the wetsuit. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In December 1996 he began a non-profit organization called O'Neill Sea Odyssey which provides students with hands-on lessons in marine biology and that teaches the relationship between the oceans and the environment. [ 12 ]
The timeline of underwater diving technology is a chronological list of notable events in the history of the development of underwater diving equipment.With the partial exception of breath-hold diving, the development of underwater diving capacity, scope, and popularity, has been closely linked to available technology, and the physiological constraints of the underwater environment.
Over the years, several notable athletes and sports figures have posed for the iconic Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. Among them: Katherine Webb-McCarron. Back in 2013, Webb, fresh off a viral ...
Former Auburn University student Katherine Webb went viral during the 2013 BCS National Championship Game. Webb, then dating her now husband in AJ McCarron, was there to support the Alabama ...
Lambertsen designed the LARU while a medical student and demonstrated the LARU to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (after already being rejected by the U.S. Navy) in a pool at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington D.C. in 1942 [3] [4] The OSS "Operational Swimmer Group" was formed and Lambertsen's responsibilities included training and developing methods of combining self-contained diving and ...
Hugh Bradner – American physicist, neoprene wetsuit inventor (1915–2008) Louis de Corlieu – French naval officer and inventor of the swimfin; John Scott Haldane – British physiologist and decompression researcher (1860–1936) Maurice Fenzy – French manufacturer of industrial and diving breathing equipment