History
- See also Timeline of underwater technology.
- 1788: Augustus Siebe was born in Saxony in Germany, named Christian Augustus Siebe.
- He was educated in Berlin and apprenticed to a brass founder.
- 1812: He served as an artillery officer at the Battle of Leipzig and narrowly escaped death.
- 1815: He served as an artillery officer in the Prussian army at the Battle of Waterloo.
- 1816: After that war he moved to London, England.
- He became a watchmaker, then gunmaker, then instrument maker, and settled at 5 Denmark Street in Soho, London, where he became an engineer.
- 1819: He started a business as a mechanical engineer at 145 High Holborn, London. He traded as Augustus Siebe and dropped the word "Christian" from his name. Down the years he produced various mechanical devices, not only diving gear.
- 1819: He married Susannah Gliddon (from Devon).
- 1819: He produced a breech-loading firearm.
- 1823: He was awarded a Vulcan medal for a screw tap for thread cutting.
- 1826: He moved to 5 Denmark Street, London, which he rented.
- 1830: His daughter Mary Siebe was born.
- (Later, William Augustus Gorman (formerly O'Gorman) (an Irish sea captain) married her.)
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