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| Picture No | 10700203 |
| Date | 1915 |
| Description | A life bag - life saving device, WW1 |
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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."
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| Source | Photograph in The Sketch, 22 September 1915 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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