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Premature Burial Prevention, 1905
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Title:
Premature Burial Prevention, 1905
Caption:
Entitled: "Premature Burial and how it may be prevented. With special reference to trance, catalepsy, and other forms of suspended animation." Count Karnice-Karnicki's invention illustrated by William Tebb of apparatus connected to coffin, showing light and supply of oxygen being released into coffin. A safety coffin or security coffin is a coffin fitted with a mechanism to prevent premature burial or allow the occupant to signal that they have been buried alive. A large number of designs for safety coffins were patented during the 18th and 19th centuries and variations on the idea are still available today.
Credit:
Album / Science Source / Wellcome Images
Releases:
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Image size:
2934 x 4800 px | 40.3 MB
Print size:
24.8 x 40.6 cm | 9.8 x 16.0 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
1900S • 1905 • 1990S • 20 XX TWENTIETH CENTURY • 20TH CENTURY • 90S • ART • ARTWORK • BIZARRE • BURIAL BOX • BURIED ALIVE • BURIED • BW • CASKET • CATAFALQUE • COFFIN • COUNT KARNICE-KARNICK • CREEPY • DIAGRAM • DRAWING • EERIE • FLAG • FUNERARY BOX • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • ILLUSTRATION • INTERRED • INVENTION • LIGHT • MALE • MAN • MEN • NINETIES • NINETIES, THE • NINETY DECADE • ODD • OXYGEN SUPPLY • PECULIAR • PREMATURE BURIAL PREVENTION • PREMATURE BURIAL • QUIRKY • SAFETY COFFIN • SCARY • SECURITY COFFIN • STRANGE • TWENTIETH CENTURY • UNUSUAL • WACKY • WEIRD
