Collection number: UA 8/6/1
Size: 1 box
(0.33 cu.ft.)
About Engineering Design and Analysis Laboratory Habitat (EDALHAB)
The Engineering Design and Analysis Laboratory was formed in 1965 as an interdisciplinary faculty group made up mainly of members of the College of Technology. The primary objectives are to give both faculty and qualified students experience in inventive engineering development where accomplishment is measured by actual results as much as it is by written reports. In the summer of 1966 the EDAL faculty undertook a study of different types of scientific sealabs, more properly known as Scientific Saturation Diving Facilities, for the U.S. Office of Naval Research. The "Edalhab" project began when the students decided to attempt building a model of the one their faculty were designing. The eight-by-ten foot Edalhab was launched on April 26, 1968 at Alton Bay, NH. Four student aquanauts spent 48 hours and six minutes living in the sea-laboratory they designed and built.
About the Engineering Design and Analysis Laboratory Habitat (EDALHAB) Files
This series contains the files of Robert Blake, Chief engineering technician for EDAL. They include project reports, newspaper clippings and photographs.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
This collection is open.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the University of New Hampshire.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Engineering Design and Analysis Laboratory Habitat (EDALHAB) Files, 1967-1978, UA 8/6/1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH, USA.
Acquisitions Information
Donation from Sylvia Black Dore,widow of Robert Blake, 4/6/2005
Collection Contents
| Box 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Box 1, Folder 1 | Jan. 1968 | Project EDALHAB report |
| Box 1, Folder 2 | 1974-75 | Final Report: Diver Assist Vehicle |
| Box 1, Folder 3 | 1970 | Misc. papers |
| Box 1, Folder 4 | 1968-78 | Articles and newspaper clippings |
| Box 1, Folder 5 | July 1967 | Photograph: On Isles of Shoals |
| Box 1, Folder 6 | 1968 | Photographs: Launching of Edalhab |
| Box 1, Folder 7 | 1968 | Photographs: aquanauts riding on Edalhab |
| Box 1, Folder 8 | 1968 | Photograph: Crew of Edalhab |
| Box 1, Folder 9 | Feb. 1968 | Photographs: Divers and Oscilab |
| Box 1, Folder 10 | Photograph: RV Lulu, Woods Hole support ship for Edalhab | |
| Box 1, Folder 11 | Photograph: RV Lulu and RV Dauntless | |
| Box 1, Folder 12 | 1971 | Photograph: views of Edalhab in dock |
| Box 1, Folder 13 | Photograph: Portable decompression chamber | |
| Box 1, Folder 14 | 1971 | Photograph: Dr. Godfrey Savage with model of Edalhab II |
| Box 1, Folder 15 | Photographs: misc. unidentified | |
| Box 1, Folder 16 | Slides: Project FLARE | |
| Box 1, Folder 17 | Photographs: Edalhab (color) | |
| Box 1, Folder 18 | 1978 | Photographs: NEOS mini-submarine (color) |
| Box 1, Folder 19 | Photographs: Deep sea diving suit (color) | |
| Box 1, Folder 20 | Patches: EDALHAB II, 1971 and FLARE, 1972 | |
