Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 99
1800, who de-signed the first submarine. It was another Amer- of 27,000 tons is an easy victim to the submarineof one-fiftieth her tonnage when the submarinetakes her unawares. It remained for the European War, more thana century after Fultons design, to vindicate theprophecies that the submarine… … A SUBMARINE RUNNING ON Tllli SURFACE. ican citizen, John P. Holland, who built the firstsubmarine that met its tests successfully, carry-ing within its steel skin practically all of theprinciples of the modern submarine. As far backas the sixteenth century men dreamed of a boatthat could travel…
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