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- Alexander The Great, around 330 B.C., had a hobby of being lowered into the ocean in a glass water-tight barrel to sit and watch the sea creatures. Once a whale tried to carry off his submersible, and he responded with "gestures of derision". SerpentOfTheSeas Pg. 2
- German Poetry around 1200 a.d. mentions Morolf using a diving boat of leather to escape enemies, in the poem Salman and Morolf. SerpentOfTheSeas Pg. 3
- Leonardo da Vinci made a rigid tube for undersea exploration. There was till no mention of attempting to use a submersible as a weapon of war. SerpentOfTheSeas Pg. 4
- The spanish successfully tried a diving bell in 1538, but no descriptions of it survive. SerpentOfTheSeas Pg. 4
- While Napoleon was at the end of his life on St. Helena, a large sum of money was given to a Briton named Johnson to attempt a submarine rescue of Napoleon, and a 100 foot boat was constructed to try and dive under the British ships blockading the island. Unfortunately Napolean died just as the submarine was getting ready to launch. SerpentOfTheSeas Pg. 12
- The first German inventor of a submarine was Wilhelm Bauer in 1850. SerpentOfTheSeas Pg. 14
- During World War I, the British built an M-type submarine that had an airplane hangar. SerpentOfTheSeas Pg. 40
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