Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-18
they have been in the water, all progress
is suspended.
AN ANCIENT PROJECT.

AN ANCIENT PROJECT.
The project of submarine navigation
Is far from being a new, or ever a mod
ern one. Many boats were built to run
under water in the eighteenth century,
and the second of them (Bushnell's)
has, 1t may be claimed, a better record
than any that have succeeded it, despite
the valuable airs afforded to the inven-
tors of the latter half of the present cen
fury by the discoveries of steam and
electricity. For though a submarine
vessel succeeded in blowing up a man-of-
war in the American Civil War, she de-
stroyed herself into the bargain.
Bushnel's boat, on the contrary,
though she failed in her attempt on the
British man-of-war Eagle, very nearly
succeeded, and got off scot free herself,
while on another occasion one of his
similar boats did destroy a storeship.
AN OLD SUBMARINE.
A print, dated 1911, shows a soldier,
Or perhaps We should say a marine,
or rather "sub-marine,' strolling about
at the bottom of the sea, armed with a
sword and battle-axe. and clad in a
diving suit of the period, supplied with
air by means of a tube, the upper end
of which is supported by a bladder. 1t
has also been stated that at the time
when the Turkish galleys We're warm
ing in the Mediterranean and Black Seas,
the inhabitants of the Ukraine contrived
for themselves some sort of diving
canoes, by the use of which they We're
frequently enabled to escape from the
clutches of the ''unspeakable Turk
CLAUS Magnus has a most
tial account of the submarine boats
which were used by the pirates OF
Gruntland. This is he says:
There are pirates in Gruntland who
make use of skiffs and vessels com
structed of leather, for the purpose of
/ rrn I" wv than ,rirl, it1,n aLN,-,
or under the water, and by their means
they pierce and make great holes in the
hulls of passing merchantmen. In the
year 1906 l saw two of these leathern
vessels or skiffs in the Cathedl al
Church of ASIDE. III the western porch
They We're dedicated to st. Haluard, anG
placed there on exhibition, and are SAX
ITO "a been captured by King Haquil
while passing with his ships of war alon.
the coast of Gruntland, when the pirate!
by their Wickedness tried to sink his yes
sells"
There is a we'll authenticated account
of a submarine boat which was in
vented in the time of James I. by Cor
nelius van Drebbel. a native Of AK
maar, in Holland. This Dutchman, by
the way, would appear to nave been a
species of Edison. in his way. and hi:
own countrymen not supporting his
schemes, he went to England and was
appointed engineer to the Scotch pedan'
who then occupied the throne.
In a diary of the visit of the Duke o!
Wurtemburg-M umpelgard to james I.
in 1910, there is the following entry: is
May.-His EXcellency went to the parl
at Ethan to see la perpetuum mobile.
The inventor is called Cornelius Trebl
a native of Alkmar, a man very fine anC
fair, and of very pleasant manners, very
different to most geniuses of his kind
This machine is described elsewhere as
"a rare instrument of perpetual motion
without the means of steel, springs 81
weights"
His curious submarine boat, too, WoulC
seem to have been an ingenious piece o
work, and to have been of considerable
size, as it is said to have accommodate
a number of passengers. besides a dozel
OarSmen.
A FRENCHMAN'S INVENTION.
In 1853 another diving boat, the inven'
tion of a Frenchman. was exhibited a
!, Amsterdam, and in 1929 the River Da"
was the scene of another experience viii
either a submarine boat or some species
of diving machine, the design OF ont
: Symons. A quaint picture of this wa!
published in 174O. The bladder-like OBJ
, iects shown at the bottom of the weird
lroking vessel were Said to be bottles