The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 54
e first appearance of the cigar shape,which set the fashion for all the submarines thathave followed. As Fulton was in France at the time he wasbuilding the boat, he tried to get the French gov-ernment interested. Finally, in 1801, he was al-lowed to give his boat a public trial in the harbor… … DIAGRAM OF THE SUBMARINE TURTLE. of Brest. There he made three trips without ahitch; in the last one he stayed under water fivehours at a stretch, and blew up an old hulk withhis mine. The crowds cheered, and the officialssmiled; then, after pondering awhile, they toldhim politely that the Nautilus…
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