A life bag - life saving device, WW1
An ingenious invention by a young Norwegian, Mr John L. Edmund to enable passengers on board ships wrecked or torpedoed to keep afloat until the arrival of help. It looked like a bag but opened out into a waterproof suit which, it claimed, would keep its owner afloat in any sea for several days. Food could be stored in a compartment to last too, in short, an emergency hotel
Picture No
13991131
Media ID
45426927
Size
5300px x 3512px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph in The Sketch, 22 September 1915
Date
1915
