EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR DIVING BELL He lived in Woodlawn as he had lived in Kansas, like a man in a diving bell. This airshaft, without an outlet, is doing for us what the diving bell does for the diver. They'll be clearing out a beaver lake with a diving bell, next! The diving bell is accurately described in our Transactions. They moored the boat and Burt, carrying the diving bell with him, went into the shed. There is a good deal of machinery about a diving bell, it is true. But so far as my book is concerned, it is of no consequence whether the diving bell is out of use or not. Under his orders, a diving bell of clear thick glass, bound with iron, had been constructed. He made a descent in a diving bell, which was used to try to reach wrecked treasure ships. Perhaps it was to some such experiment as this that the conception of the diving bell was due.