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Musee du Scaphandre, Espalion, Aveyron ( France ) #51328310
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Musee du Scaphandre, ancient church of St Jean-Baptiste, Espalion, Aveyron (France). Inaugurated on 21 June 1980 the museum of aqualung was created in homage to espalionnais inventors of the first modern aqualung. In 1860, the mining engineer Benoît Rouquayrol developing a regulator for the flow of compressed gases. This device, created to rescue the miners caught in the gas, has been adapted to the underwater world in 1864. With a pressure tank and a pressure regulator to deman.