Safe Submarine Vessels and the Future Of the Art & Modern Submarines in War and Peace: Present Status of the Submarine and Its Future Possibilities-Early Submarines and Lessons Applied to Modern Development
Lake, Simon, Esq.
London: Institute of Naval Architects, 1907. Two reports: "Safe Submarines..." 28 pages + folding plate and 3 other pages of submarine prototype illustrations, including a picture of the Argonaut Jr.; Harbour and Coast Defence Type; Mine Planting Submarine; Design of a Submarine Torpedo-Boat for Navigating Under the Ice; Lake Even-Keel Harbour and Coast Defence Type; Comparison of Level-Keel and Diving Type; and the second report, "Modern Submarines in War and Peace..." 1916, offprint from International Marine Engineering From July 1915, to April 1916; a presentation copy, "With the compliments of the Author (signed) Simon Lake" 48 pages; illustrated in black and white throughout including depictions of the Russian Submarine Kaiman making a Surface Run in the Gulf of Finland; British Submarine B I (Holland Type) a Sister Shipt to B II That Recently Sank the Turkish Battleship Messudieh in the Dardenelles; Bushnell's Submarine; the American Turtle; Confederate Submarine Hunley; New Orleans Submarine; Germany's First Submarine; French Submarine Le Plongeu; J.P. Holland Fenian Ram; the Protector, built in Bridgeport Connecticut; submarines in various activities and the documentation surrounding with military and commercial application; laid-in is a 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" photograph of a submarine flying an American flag fom its conning tower, all visible; Simon Lake (1866-1945) inventor, submarine pioneer. Left school at fourteen to work in father's machine shop; in 1887, took out first of some 200 patents granted him...Submitted hist first plans for a submarine in 1893...organized the Lake Torpedo Boat Company, 1900, and in 1902 at Bridgeport, Conn., launched his 'Protector', first of a new breed of submarines; they were equipped with hydroplanes fore and aft to achieve submergence while maintaining an even keel, and with an early form of the periscope. (DBA) (original paper wrap covers, edge-chipped, old tape repair to second document; contents in good condition; interesting and especially so for Lake's signed presentation. Good S (Item ID: 11244)
$350.00
