Who invented…
Swimming Goggles?
Persian divers are the first known users of swim goggles. They used polished tortoise shells to protect their eyes.
In the 1930s, Guy Gilpatrick used swim goggles to protect his eyes from saltwater.
But small swim goggles didn’t come into wide use until the 1960s. They were crude, sometimes painful instruments that were basic eye protection from the chemicals in the water.
By 1972, though, they had become a standard part of every swimmer’s equipment.
Goggles were first used in the 1976 Olympics.
The first official tie for a gold medal in Olympic Swimming history came in Los Angeles 1984, when American teammates Nancy Hogshead and Carrie Steinseifer swam identical times in the 100m Freestyle event.
The first pair of flashing LED junior swimming goggles called Gogglows went on sale in November 2011
Who invented…
Swimming Fins?
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Benjamin Franklin was born on Sunday, January 17, 1706, in Boston, Massachusetts, at around the age of 10, in 1716, Benjamin Franklin may have invented swim fins and hand paddles.
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Ben was an avid swimmer, as a boy, he had made two wooden palettes, oval in shape and with a hole through which to put one’s thumb. With one on each hand, he paddled through water, observing that they helped him to swim faster. He later developed swim fins to reduce what he called a “laborious and fatiguing operation.”
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Much more modern swim fins, are an invention from a Frenchman called Louis de Corlieu. In 1914 De Corlieu made a practical demonstration of his first prototype for a group of navy officers, Yves le Prieur among them, who years later, in 1926, invented an early model of scuba set. De Corlieu left the French Navy in 1924 to fully devote himself to his invention. In April 1933 he registered a patent (number 767013, which in addition of two fins for the feet included two spoon-shaped fins for the hands) and called this equipment propulseurs de natation et de sauvetage (which can barely be translated as “swimming and rescue impulse device”).
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