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I don't see why informative pages and links can heart. I thought that's the purpose of wikipedia to gather information about anything in it. I guess I was wrong.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Msadaghd (talk • contribs) 2007-04-22T20:26:26
This article can can do with a general cleanup, a lot more references and the romoval of statement such as But conservative thinking from navies held back this new idea --NJR_ZA (talk) 14:17, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Anybody have any idea what exactly is meant by the section:
As other references make clear, by his time vulcanised rubber boats had already been around for nearly 60 years, and at least one version had a sail as well as paddles. Unless someone can explain some other meaning for this section, it looks like someone came across a reference to inflatable rafts for that era and assumed that they were the earliest attempt after animal skins -- an assumption which is quite wrong. -- 203.20.101.203 (talk) 01:38, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
To say that early flotation devices were "inflated by mouth" is not verifiable, nor is it necessary. Air-bellows have existed since ancient times. Landroo (talk) 16:56, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Would people agree that the boat in this 1930 photo appears to be an inflatable? If so, an anyone work out whether it is anything that was mass-manufactured, or might it just be someone's one-off? - Jmabel | Talk 04:38, 19 September 2018 (UTC)