John P. Holland and Simon Lake were the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of submarines. They didn’t know it then, but they changed the world. This episode is about these two giants who improved submarines, ironed out all the wrinkles, solved problems...
When we think of submarines, we’re likely to conjure in our mind photos and videos of German U-boats sinking British transports in the Atlantic, accidents with Russian subs or American nuclear submarines. But it was actually the French who...
Most submarine development action in the 1870-1900 period took place on the European continent. But though the British admiralty wasn’t interested in submarines, that didn’t mean that no one on the isles was dabbling in it. George Garrett of...
Every new development depends on geniuses. One of those was Narcis Monturiol.The American Civil War had ended and the US government was demobilizing fast. In Europe, though, submarine development was picking up, mainly thanks to French government...
We’re in 1870 to 1900: the breakthrough of electric engines, the first time a battleship is torpedoed by a submerged submersible and true submarine frenzy in France. With the efficacy of submarine attack now proven by the CSS Hunley, French...
Any arguments against the procurement of submersibles ended on February 17, 1864, when Confederate lieutenant Dixon and his crew of eight men in the submersible CSS H.L. Hunley sank the US warship USS Housatonic, outside of Charleston, South...