Chronology of Underwater Technology
| 1716 | Edmund Halley builds a diving bell. |
| 1801 | Robert Fulton builds the first submarine. |
| 1819 | Augustus Siebe invents a diving suit which receives air pumped down from the surface. |
| 1934 | Charles Beebe dives to 3,028 feet using a bathysphere. |
| 1943 | Jacques-Yves Cousteau makes the first dive with a compressed-air aqualung. |