Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 270
ected against leaking bygreased leather. Van Drebel boasted that hekept the air inside by means of a secret elixir, butafter his death his enemies declared that he musthave had air-pipes sticking out of the water. Atany rate, he died with his secret while in themidst of his experiments. When we… … several inventors tried to build submarines. Oneof them, oddly enough, was a John Holland, whotook out a patent for his submarine in 1691. In1891, just two hundred years later, another JohnHolland was perfecting a submarine which hascome to be the accepted type in our Navy. But the glory of making…
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