Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 271
lso a sail for use when on the surface.Notice the 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… … 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…
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