Ernest Guglielminetti

Ernest Guglielminetti (born 23 November 1862, Brig-Glis; died 20 February 1943, Geneva) was a Swiss medical doctor.

[1] Then he travelled around the world and went as a military doctor to the Dutch Indies (Java, Sumatra) and later to the British North Borneo tobacco plantations.

[1] In 1891 he developed a self-contained breathing apparatus for mountaineers, firefighters and frogmen.

[2] On 1894, he settled in Monaco where he met Prince Albert I who asked him what could be done to ban the dust stirred up by the first motor vehicles.

[5] A monument next to the Saltina bridge in Brig commemorates Ernest Guglielminetti.