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early submarines

From: Ron Miller <rmiller~at~crosslink.net>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:08:50 +0000
To: jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il 



There were a number of successful submarines before the David of the 


American Civil War. The David just happened to be one of the first to 


be used successfully during wartime (if one does not count the Turtle 


of 1776). There was, of course, Robert Fulton's Nautilus (1798), the Spanish 


Il Icteneo (1862), Le Plongeur (1863), the Diable Marin (1855), the Intelligent Whale 


(1866-1872), and Le Plongeur Marin (1850) among others. A major 


influence on the external appearance of Verne's Nautilus was the 


non-submersible "cigar ship" of Ross Winans.



Ron Miller


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