bathysphere

Etymology
From +. Genericization from the particular 1930s bathysphere named "Bathysphere". The name 'bathysphere' coined decades after the introduction of the device in the 1890s.

Noun

 * 1) A spherical steel deep-diving chamber with perspex windows, in which persons are lowered to the depths by a cable to study the oceans and deep-sea life; the precursor to the bathyscaphe

Translations

 * Catalan: batisfera
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 潛水球
 * Finnish: batysfääri
 * French:
 * German: Bathysphäre
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 潜水球
 * Polish: batysfera
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: batisfera