The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-13
LONDON TO NEW YORK.
To be Travelled Half Way Under tn
Water in Submarine.

A submarine essel that will cross tn
Atlantic and remain under water hal
the time.
Such is the marvellous craft that Gou
bet, the famous French inventor of sub
marine boats, is designing.
He promises that his newest and mos
perfect ship win make. under waite
at least half the 5000 miles between Lon
don and New York
Goubet is no dreamer. Expert and mos
practical, he first, in 1885, created tn,
little Submarine Goulet, whose origina
pattern weighed only one and one hal
tons.
Gradually he improved the type. Til,
child OF his brain is the torpedo boa
Gustaye Zede, 1898. feet long, the giantes,
Of her kind. Frances first fighting sub
marine.
The Zede is so safe, so easily directed
that President Loubet took a tip unde,
the water in her. France is buildins
many like the Zede. for in submarine tor.
pedo boats the sister republic thinks
that she sees the end Of Britain's su.
premscy of the waves.
Now Goubet coldly, without emotion o,
| exageration, promises a submarine YES.
|
miles between London and New York thai
can be submerged whenever and as otter
as Is desirable or necessary, that will
pursue its way far under the surface for
at least half OF the Journey
Thus Goubet, the expert engineer, will
realize Jules verne's wonderful dream,
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
Sea"
Capt. Nemo's wonderful boat, the Naut-
/ Illus, Will become a reality.
In his fascinating story Jules Verne ex-
planned most pleasIbly how the boat was
| lighted, heated and propelled by electric
| ity, and how. at the win of its com
| mander. it could be made to travel either
on or beneath the surface OF the sea.
With his peculiar ability Verne made
the improbable seem SO easily possible.
that reading his book. once asked him
self Why cannot such a boat be built. -
Goubet will build such boat; one
Frenchmsn will crystalize into actual
form the others prophetic vision. There
will be a real Nautilus
Necessarily Goubet and the French
Government teslously guard the secrets
OF the construction of his submarines
Woe betide the stranger who tries to pho
tograph so much as the turret of the
Gustave Zede, Only the crew Of each
boat may enter her; the crew are closely
watched on shore lest they should talk
too much. France enthusiastically hope
fui that she viii rule under the waves.
runs no chance that may cost her trl-
umph.
But American marine and submarine
y fhaf he fror > 4, 49,
Goubet is designing will be propelled and,
OF course heated and lighted by electric
ity.
They say too, that the problem of ven
tiliating such vessel. and of giving
bountiful supply OF air to passengers and
crew while she is submerged is most
simple one.
It requires no expert 70 appreciate some
or the advantages such as a vessel as
Goubet's has over the greatest transat-
iantic steamers.
The NAUTILUS Of the Twentieth century
can have no fear of the mightiest storm
that ever strewed its path with drifting
hulks
For, watching the barometer. the cap
tain Of Goubets Eletrer-wiU that name
mt a steamer driven by electricity will
find the water reservoirs for immersio
and on the near approach OF a storm Will
take a header down below"
There. far under the tremendous waves
that are curling the tunnels Of the sur
face boats. Goubet's vessel will keep her
quiet way until the storm spends its force
OF course. you ask directly: IF it is
quiet below how will she have known OF
the storm has passed -
The Goubet boat will have eyes and the
sharpest kind Of ears. Its eyes will not
only be electric searchIights 10 illuminate
its submarine path. but, being under
water. It will able TO see above water.
This by means Of the rev French clep-
toscope an instrument composed OF mir
rors and PRISONS and telescoping tubes
Of which the top one projects above the
surface Of the water. This contrivance
is now used on the fighting submarines,
which must see why they remain invisi-
be It Is a simple adjustment Of two
prisms so arranged in the tube as 10
reflect any image on the waters surface.
The light rays strike the normal face
Of the topmost PRISON. and are completely
reflected on striking the inclined face.
In a Goubet texsedo boat tested last
fan in a lake at St. Ouen. outside Paris. (
the crew could hear anything going on
within a mile.
They telephoned with people or shore /
and sent messages in water tight globes I
forced through the aperture IN the bow.
The novelty OF such an ocean voyage, I
half the time under water. would attract +
many passengers Nowadays a man runs
risk OF accident who walks from Park +
Place L station 10 the bridge entrance /
than he who crosses the Atlantic in 4
modern liner. That VOYAGE 70 almos-
because II e perfectly safe. f.
People will ina CINE a spice 81 danger OF f
drowning En- mssse viii enliven an ocean /
trip in the Nautilus In reality. there
viii be no earthly danger--ather no wat
cry danger-on Goubets new submarine. I
The evolution % the submarine boat has Z
been slower. bat not less certain than
that or the greatest floating mcnarchs q /
the sea Remember the wonderful test
u the Holland submarine. thu Fulton
made in Peconic bav last December. The
Yankee boat. perfectly controlled. shot a
torpedo from her tube. arose while the
deadly uiSsive spceded through the water
wstched the effect u the shot. and then
The fulton can easily dodge shots from
az enemy's shots. From the little glass
windows Of her coming tower her cap
laia can watch thu ash q shot fired
FROM a one-poundsr rapid-fire gun Just a
nile away. Then he car make his boat
dive three feet underground before the
shot can reach him. II the shol should
then nix the boat u would De r glzncing
b
~ the French engineers admit thai Amer
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