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Inventing Bond: Gadgets

Patented: History of Inventions

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Bond's Rebreather

The CIA and the Royal Engineers contacted Ian Bond to ask for a rebreather in Thunderbolt. The story goes that they're talking to the Ian guy who says, no, we made it up. It's just a metal container with two CO2 containers inside. Two of them together with a bit of plastic, and he sticks it in his mouth and he jumps in,. He kills the shark, whatever. And so the Royal Engineers ask Ian, you know, what about that and the CIA? And he said, well, he held these...

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