| Ireland - 1843 - 450 pages
...other voyages ; from ice and great frosts, which do so much endanger the passages towards the Poles. "3. It may be of very great advantage against a navy...undermined in the water, and blown up. " 4. It may be of a special use for the relief of any place that is besieged by water, to convey unto them invisible... | |
| Henry Dircks - Industrial arts - 1865 - 670 pages
...considers various schemes, and mentions as one of the advantages of such a submarine vessel, that, " It may be of very great advantage against a navy of enemies, who by tli is means may be undermined in the water and blown up."— Math. Magick, 1648, p. 178. Among the... | |
| Frederick Whymper - 1883 - 712 pages
...merely to be written but is to be printed on board. "Among the many conveniences of such a contrivance, it may be of very great advantage against a navy of...means, may be undermined in the water and blown up." Another old writer, Schott, in a rare and curious work, entitled " Mirabilia Mechanica," offers several... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...other voyages : from ice and great frosts, which do so much endanger the passages towards the poles. 3. It may be of very great advantage against a navy of enemies, who by this means may bo undermined in the water, and blown up. 4. It may be of special use for the relief of any place that... | |
| Military art and science - 1895 - 682 pages
...advantages, if there be any. Bishop Wilkins,* 1648, writes that a submarine ark or vessel may be used : 1. "Against a navy of enemies, who by this means may be undermined in the water and blown up." 2. " Relief of any place besieged by water, also surprisall of any place." 3. " Unspeakable benefit... | |
| Herbert C. Fyfe - Submarine warfare - 1907 - 350 pages
...than on the waves. The late M. Goubet also imagined a submarine crossChannel service. Thirdly — " It may be of very great advantage against a Navy of...means may be undermined in the Water and blown up." Sixty-seven years after these words were written David Bushnell launched his submarine boat, which... | |
| Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle - History - 2003 - 348 pages
...\\ilkins discusses 'the making of a ship, wherein men may safely swim under water'. Such an invention 'may be of very great advantage against a navy of...means may be undermined in the water and blown up', John Wilkins, Mathematicall Magic or the \\onders that mai' he pcrfarnied by Mechanical Geometry (London,... | |
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