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Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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French inventor M. Freminet has developed a device allowing him to stay underwater for 1 hour 45 minutes and retrieve objects. Successful tests in Brest and Toulon roads; Chancellor supports. Public trial in Paris next May; plans school in Brest.
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--The inventor has already repeated the experiments in the roads of Brest and Toulon with such great success, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer gives him very liberal proofs of the satisfaction he feels from such an important discovery. The public trial is to be made next May in Paris, between Pont Neuf and Pont Royal. The inventor will remain an hour and an half under water; a floating piece of cork will mark the spot where the diver is to be; after the experiment in Paris, he is to set off for Brest, there to open a school to form a certain number of people in the art of diving, and teach them to use his machine with success and without danger,
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France
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Next May
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successful experiments in brest and toulon; governmental support; planned public trial and diving school
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M. Freminet invented a means to remain underwater for 1 hour 45 minutes and retrieve objects, aimed at assisting drowning victims. Experiments succeeded in Brest and Toulon roads, earning Chancellor's satisfaction. Public trial set for next May in Paris between Pont Neuf and Pont Royal, staying 1.5 hours underwater marked by cork. Afterward, to open diving school in Brest.