Brief guide to manuscripts collections| William L. Clements Library The University of Michigan James Whipple Papers |
James A. Whipple, a native of Boston, was apprenticed to a steam engine manusfacturer and became a skilled machinist and engineer. He studied submarine diving and pursued a career as a 'salvor,' recovering sunken property along the Atlantic coast and in Caribbean and Mediterranean waters. Whipple was a talented inventor. He made substantial improvements in submarine armor and diving apparatus, particularly with his development of a trumpet used to communicate between a diver and an assistant above water.
Papers of James Aldrich Whipple, American submarine engineer.
This collection contains 479 letters and 211 business documents related to Whipple's work raising sunken property; other material concerns his submarine diving inventions.
Purchased, 1969
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