Robert Davis (inventor)

Sir Robert Henry Davis (1870 – 1965) was an English inventor and director of the Siebe Gorman company.

Davis breathing set was destined to allow British submarine crews to escape when their ship started to sink.

While still directing Siebe Gorman Davis was the first British to buy a licence from the Cousteau-Gagnan Aqua-Lung[3] (from the French company La Spirotechnique), starting commercialization of scuba sets in Britain as of 1948.

[4] Davis Road in Chessington (where Siebe Gorman's factory was for a while) was named after him.

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