SHIPS BENEATH THE SEA
A History of Subs and Submersibles
ISBN:0595093787

Did you know that Robert Fulton first designed and built a workable underwater submarine but no one wanted it so he scrapped it and invented the steamboat which they wanted? SHIPS BENEATH THE SEA, A History of Subs and Submersibles is the adventurous story of man's determination to build underwater vehicles to explore the mysteries of the deep. More than just a popular history of these unique vessels that range from Alexander's legendary diving bell in 350 BC to today's nuclear subs, this book looks closely at those Magnificent Men who built these marvelous diving machines. Burgess enhances this dramatic evolution with over 100 historically rare drawings and photographs depicting these often bizarre vehicles. Written to take the reader along into these always harrowing adventures, this chapter of our underwater history deserves a resounding "hurrah" for the men who lived it. They were true heroes! 260 pages. Illustrated. Paperback: 6 x 9-inches. © 1975/2000 Published by iUniverse.com.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Foreword
1. The First Submariners
2. The Eagle and the Turtle
3. Fulton: Submarine Round the Bend
4. The Resilient Sea Devil
5. The Davids and the Goliaths
6. The Indomitable Fenian Ram
7. Marching to a Different Drummer
8. Accolade for an Argonaut
9. Swing Low Deadly Chariot
10. To the Ultimate Floor
11. Bittersweet Tang
12. Rickover: Nautilus Maximus
13. Piccard: To the Realm of Eternal Calm
14. Cousteau: Master of the Deep
14. Mutt and Jeff: Search for the Missing H-Bomb
15. D/RVs: The New Generation
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

FROM THE BOOK:

    "On the afternoon of July 29, 1800, a party of picnickers along the banks of the River Seine near Rouen, France, hardly noticed the small sailboat moving sluggishly downriver on a light breeze. ...two men lowered and folded the sail, then disappeared into the small cabin - nothing in the least unusual. But what...shook the picnickers out of their lethargy was to see the vessel continue upriver with no visible sign of locomotion, then slowly sink from sight. ...seventeen minutes later...the boat surfaced...the men hoisted her peculiar sail and calmly sailed away.
    What the picnickers had unknowingly witnessed was the first trial run of a remarkable submarine designed by...a young American...named Robert Fulton. It was twenty-eight years before French novelist and fictional submarine forecaster, Jules Verne, would be born...."

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