Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-11-15
A, Submarine Romance Written Half Century
Before the Deutschland

When l wish to rise to the level Of
the sea | only let Off the water and
empty all the reservoirs If l want the
Nautilus to emerge from the tenth part
Of her total capacity"
had nothing to object to these rea-
sonings.
Il admit your calculations, captain"
| replied. II should be wrong to dis
pute them since daily experience con
trims them, but foresee real diff
Guilty in the way"
What. sir?'
when you are about 1000 feet deep
the walls Of the Nautilus bear ores.
sure Of 100 atmospheres. If, then, Just
now you were to empty the supplement.
fary reservoirs, to tighten the vessel,
and to go up to the surface the pumps
must overcome the pressure Of 100 at
mospheres, which Is $500 pounds pei
square inch. From that power
That electricity alone can give" said
the captain hastily. Il repeat, sir, that
the dynamic power of my engines is
almost infinite. The pumps of the Nau.
titus have an enormous power, as you
must have observed when their jets of
water burst like torrent upon the
Abraham Lincoln. Besides, use sub
sidiary reservoirs only to attain a mean
depth Of $50 to 1000 fathoms, and that
with view OF managing my machines
Also, when l have mind to visit the
depths Of the ocean five or six miles
below the surface. make use of slow
er but not less infallible MEANS"
What are they. captain2'
'"That involves my telling you how
the Nautilus is worked"
II am impatient to learn"
10 steer this boat to starboard OF
port, to turn, In word. following q
horizontal plan, use an ordinary rud
der fixed on the back Of the stern post
and with one wheel and some tackle to
steer by But I can also make the Nau.
titus rise and sink and sink and rise
by vertical movement by means OF
two inclined planes fastened to its
planes that move in every direction
and that are worked by powerful levers
from the interior. II the planes are
kept parallel with the boat it moves
horizontally. If slanted the Nautilus
according to this inclination and unde,
the influence of the screw. either sinks
liagonally or rises diagonally as 1t suits
me. And even il wish to rise more
quickly to the surface ship the screw
and the pressure of the water cause:
the Nautilus to rise vertically like {
balloon filled with hydrogen
Bravo, captain! But how can tn
steersmap follow the route In the mid
lie Of the waters?'
1.-The steersman Is placed In glazet
box that Is raised above the hull Of tn
Nautilus and furnished with lenses"
Are these lenses capable Of resisting
such pressure?"
Perfectly. Glass, which breaks a
a blow, is nevertheless capable Of Of
fering considerable resistance. Durin.
some experiments Of fishing by electric
light in 1864 In the northern seas w
saw plates less than a third of al
inch thick resist pressure Of sixteel
atmospheres. Now, the glass that
use Is not less than thirty times thick
err"
"Granted. But, after all, in order t.
see the light must exceed the dark
ness, and in the midst Of the darkness
in the water how can you see?"
Behind the steerman's cage Is place,
a powerful electric reflector, the ray
from which light up the sea for half
mile in front"
"Ah. bravo, bravo, captain! Now
can account for this phosphorescenc
in the supposed narwhal that pnzzle
Us so. l now ask you If the boardin
Of the Nautilus and of the Scotia, tina
has made such a noise, has been til
result of a chance rencounter?"
"Quite accidental, sir. | was sailin
only one fathom below the surface 9
the water when the shock came.
had no bad result"
"None, sir. But now about your REL
confer with the Abraham Lncolnw
professor, am sorry for one 6
the best vessels In the American nav.
but they attacked me, and l wa