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Ships Beneath the Sea is the adventureous story of man's determination to build underwater vehicles for exploring the mysteries of the deep.More than just a popular history of submarines and submersibles, it looks closely at the men behind these inventions. From alexander's legendary diving bell in 350 BC today's nuclear submarines, they are all here in dramatic detail-the magnificent men and their diving machines.Burgess enhances this facinating evolution with over 100 historically rare line drawings and photographs of often bizarre underwater vehicles. This book records an exciting chapte of our nautical history with a well-deserved "hurrah" for the men who lived it."An enthralling tale of magnificent men and their marvelous diving machines."Spyglass Publications,
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Robert F. Burgess has spent most of his life writing about adventures above or below the sea. His books about shipwrecks, sharks, treasure diving, and underwater archeology are acclaimed for the authors ability to put the reader in the middle of the action. An ardent sailor and scuba diver, he and his wife live in northern Florida.
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"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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- PublisheriUniverse
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0595093787
- ISBN 13 9780595093786
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages276
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