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Any ideas what this is for? - Culmor - 07 Aug 2010
Here's a picture I found by accident while browsing flickr, I have no idea what the machine's function is or was:
RE: Any ideas what this is for? - Strappado - 07 Aug 2010
It triggers phantasies. But perhaps it is for deep-freezing people until a cure is found for their deadly deseases.
RE: Any ideas what this is for? - cbshackle - 10 Aug 2010
I think that is a hyperbolic chamber (maybe a early portable version) to be used on a ship for someone that got the benz from scuba diving. Of course it could be used for other purposes 😊
RE: Any ideas what this is for? - Strappado - 10 Aug 2010
I tried to read the text on the cart, it says something like "J NEW I EQUIPMENT MIL S&F...". Not enlightning. But I can't find any entrance for a human body, I think it is something else, some technical equipment that happens to look like a sitting human. As a matter of fact, I think it could be a giant valve.
But hyperbolic chamber was quite a good idea, though I browsed images on the web and the older small portable ones are simply straight tubes. I actually wonder why such an emergency equipment would force the patient to upright sitting.
Well, better forget about all this and let your phantasy flow 😊
RE: Any ideas what this is for? - Culmor - 11 Aug 2010
It seems to me you would sit on the lower half and the top section would be lowered down and sealed by those handles level with the seat. I would think that was unnecessarily complicated for someone suffering from the bends, surely you want to get them re-pressurized as soon as possible and a simple horizontal cylinder would seem best for that.
RE: Any ideas what this is for? - Like Ra - 25 Aug 2010
Weird picture. Can be anything indeed.
RE: Any ideas what this is for? - Strappado - 27 Aug 2010
I think my first idea (cryo chamber) could be true, or it is simply a prop for a movie.
But I noticed once again: It is difficult to see things as they really are as soon as they inspire your thoughts.
RE: Any ideas what this is for? - bluedragontao - 17 Sep 2010
Oooh, I saw one of these in a random museum once. If I remember clearly, it's an early form of hyperbaric chamber. It can be used to treat bends but it could also have been used to do testing of the human body at high pressures, or for medical procedures.
RE: Any ideas what this is for? - Like Ra - 17 Sep 2010
Cheers bluedragontao! So, we're back to the hyperbaric chamber version!
RE: Any ideas what this is for? - Daemon - 09 Dec 2010
It actually reminds me of something else.... A long time ago, I think it was a Dracula movie or something.
They explained that 'in the old times, medical science was quite crude and 'scientists' and 'docters' often operated and 'cured' on assumption.
One of those assumptions was 'What would drive a sane man mad, might drive a mad man sane'. They built some sort of chambers where they'd mess with the pressure, driving the person in the chamber bonkers. Unless offcourse he a
eady was. 😉 It's actually the first thing that comes to mind..