The ignored leather and wood submarine capable of carrying 32 men in 1621

2023-06-26 04:50:07
During the harrowing search for the Titan, the submersible that was on a scouting voyage to the Titanic wreck and whose five passengers were presumed dead on Friday, a multitude of news stories have been published about the most important submarines in history. For example, those invented by Dr. Payerne (1844), Wilhelm Bauer (1850) or Lodner Phillips (1851) for both military and scientific purposes. The Catalan engineer Narciso Monturiol built his Ictíneo II in 1859, which he tested in the port of Barcelona propelled by two people and which never reached the necessary power to counteract the sea currents. Long before all these pioneering creations, however, there was a submersible that few people knew about… View More
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