The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 59
icer, diving-wheelin hand, turns onthe valves which ad-mit floods of waterinto the ballast tanks.You hear the wa-ter as it gurglesand seethes into thetanks, and you hearthe displaced airwhistling out of the valves on top. You feel the decks settle under you continue to sink until, the ballast tanks… … THE SUBMARINE GREAT MECHANICAL MARVELS 45 Briefly, what the men have done is to destroy Smoothly and evenly, as if you were glidingthe buoyancy of the boat by admitting water, down a hill in a trolley-car, you feel your boatso gaging the cubical contents of the ballast tanks tobogganing into the…
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