{"id":16076,"date":"2026-06-14T00:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=16076"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:06:37","slug":"hardhat-diving-suit-was-patented-by-leonard-norcross-in-1834","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=16076","title":{"rendered":"Hard Hat Diving Suit Was Patented by Leonard Norcross in 1834"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hard hat diving suit was patented by Leonard Norcross of Dixfield, Maine, in 1834<\/strong>. The suit became the first practical diving suit. A tube connected the helmet\/suit with surface air. Norcross was so proud of his invention he named his son Submarinus. Children can watch a video of hard hat diving at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CsCXlbURBU4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CsCXlbURBU4<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard hat diving suit was patented by Leonard Norcross of Dixfield, Maine, in 1834. The suit became the first practical diving suit. A tube connected the helmet\/suit with surface air. Norcross was so proud of his invention he named his son Submarinus. Children can watch a video of hard hat diving at: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CsCXlbURBU4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5395,655,5631,654],"class_list":["post-16076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5395","tag-hardhat-diving-suit","tag-june-14","tag-leonard-norcross","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23222,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16076\/revisions\/23222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}