Downstream

the time, and in the coming
decades inventors would
patent a whole array of air
bladders, buoys and floats,
webbed gloves and winged
boots, most of which were
‘crude and utterly illogical’,
according to The Badminton
Library.
Boyton swam up and down
several rivers in the USA and
Europe to publicise the suit
and often, as was the case in
the Thames, invited