Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 542
her bottles.When the inventor desired to sink, he allowedwater to run into these bottles, the necks ofwhich were, of course, outside the boat and thebottles inside. When he wished to come to thesurface, he expelled the water from the bottles by squeezing them, and prevented it from flowingback by… … THE TrKTLE. INVENTED BY UAVIU KUSHNELL. printed a picture of it, which we have reproducedon the opposite page. Very few historians of the War of the Ameri-can Revolution mention submarines, yet one ofthese craft, described by Alan H. Burgoyne inSubmarine Navigation, Past and Present, wasused in an…
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