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.
$19.95
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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...."
A
REVIEW:
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are
the kind of true stories that make movies!"
—Spyglass
Publications
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Robert F.
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