Images Dated 20th August 2008

Submarine Evolution

The evolution of the submarine between 1863 and 1899. Shown are Bourgeois and Brun's Plongeur (1863), Halstead's Cunning Whale (1872), Holland's No. 1 (1875), Garrett's invention (1875), Drzewiecki's invention (1877, 1879, 1884), Laganne's invention (1881), Davies Demon (1883), Flais invention (1885), Boucher's invention (1885), Nordenfelt's invention (1885), Campbell and Ash's invention (1885), Haight and Wood's invention (1886), Baron's invention (1886), Waddington's invention (1886), D'Allest's invention (1886), Lecaudey's invention (1887), Gustave Zede's Gymnote (1888), Peral's invention (1889), Goubet's No. 1 (1889), Forest's invention (1891), Holland's Plongeur (1892), Zede's No. 2 (1892), Baker's invention (1892), Piatti del Pozzo's invention (1894), Holland's No. 3 (1896), Romazzotti's Morse (1896), Lake's Argonaut (1896). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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