Émile Gagnan

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Émile Gagnan

French engineer

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underwater diving
…Cousteau and the French engineer Émile Gagnan developed the first fully automatic compressed-air Aqua-Lung. Cousteau also did important work on the development of underwater cameras and photography and popularized the sport in Le Monde du silence (1952; The Silent World), written with Frédéric Dumas, and in other writings and television…
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…Cousteau and the French engineer Émile Gagnan developed the first fully automatic compressed-air Aqua-Lung. Cousteau also did important work on the development of underwater cameras and photography and popularized the sport in Le Monde du silence (1952; The Silent World), written with Frédéric Dumas, and in other writings and television…
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