Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-11-07
SUBMARINE NAVIGATION.
"There is nothing now under the SUM-"

/ SOb-MAHlNE NANlGATlON,
"There 10 nothing under the sum-
This aLage is as old as the time Of Solomon
II is probable that many ages before The exis-
tence Of the King of the Jews, attempts were
made in machines TO breathe and navigate in
the depth Of the sea and rivers. The books
which spoke OF such experiments have been
! DESTROYED by the flames Of conquests, or sub.
merged by the floods Of inund atoms; all which
has been written on the subject applies to the
effort Of the present day. The most ancient
writer OF antiquity who mentions il, is the pre-
ceptor of Alexander, Aristotle, speaking Of sub
marine navigation, aIludes TO the use of bells Of
cornemuses. Authors who wrote sixteen huns
dred years after the death Of Philip, say that
the vanquisher Of the son Of Darius navigate
under water. 1ba, which seems most proba-
BILE is that in the lSh, l4th, 18th and 9th CEN
turtles, they have constructed mae hines or boats
for submarine navigation, ana that the inhab.
itants OF the Ukraine, 10 avoid The attacks Of
The Turkish gal!eys, constructed large pirogues
by the aid Of which they concealed themselves
under wafer.
In 1864, Pere Mersaune published an essay
upon diving boats, which preserved lommuni.
cations with the surfsce OF the water, and TWEEN
~ years a later vessel was constructed at Lon
don, by Cornelius Van Drebble, for twelve rows
, ers and great number Of passengers. King
James was 10 take place among them. A IL
quid, Of which the author alone knew the COM
position, gave 10 air vitiated by respiration the
quality Of vital air. Unfortunately the author
died with his secret There was also sub
marine vessel 70 feet in length, built a, Ro'ter-
dam in 1865, by Frenchman The plan of
building aud directing this vessel, which, ac>
cording to the inventor, might destroy nu-
| QaaS has heep tnnNyn The
who possessed il never gave the important in.
formation 10 the world.
! An incendiary diving or plunging boat was
constructed in l776, by David Bushel, an in
habitant Of Connecticut. The movement Of
this boa, was goverend 5y the screw Of Archi.
medes. That Of Fulton, built at Brest in 1901.
upon the same principle; the Nautilus, in which
I he brothers Coessin made an experiment at
Havre IN 1909; and several others, induced the
learned commissioners of the Institution TO de-
eide that they were not o, liberty to entertain
doubt upon the possibility OF establishing sub.
marine navigation.
! project was entertained some years since
for carrying off Napoleon Bonaparlc from 81
Helena; that plan was conceived by MIR. John
son, captain in the English merchant SER
vice. A ship, the largest that had been built
for submarine navigation, (it was 100 feet in
length Gas t. --celre the prisoner oi Sir Hud>
son Lowe. ~ Johnson had previously built
FIVE boats, ~h,- n ne navigateG during several
hours under W alter III the Thames; hui all these
! vessels were made upon the plan Of Fulton and
/ Buschel, Messrs. de Mongery and Castera, in
THEN construction, which were intended to pro-
mote the art Of war, followed the plans pursu-
co by Others.
The system Of sub marine navigation for
which NJ Bardonin DIES Andelys, Obtained
patent, is quite new. 1t is founded upon The
impression Of water upon air, in its STATE OF at
mos pheric dilation, and Of the air upon The wa
ter displacihg reciprocally, at the will OF the
submarine pilot. The principal materials with
which NJ. Baudonn supplies himself is air.
BY simple process, easy OF execution, he can
compress that element, $50 eminently elastic
aud in vase of that capacity oil cubic loot,
he retains sixty feet Of resprable air.
We do not give a description OF the disn g
boat with the ca,que for the diver: the barre Is
for salvage and other mac hines simple ss
ingenious, and which have fixed the attention
Of the Minister Of Marine, because the ma
CHIMES will continue open 10 public inspection
until the middle Of mex, month. We entirely
agree in the opinion Ct the persons who think
that this discovery which opens to man The
gates of an element hitherto inaccessible 10 his
feet, will operate in the moral as well as The
ply sical world important changes.
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