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Instructions to Barlow regarding the "Drawings and Descriptions". Fulton's youth (1765-1782). Residence in England studying art (1786-1793). Change from art to engineering as a vocation (1793). Arrival in France (1798). ## CHAPTER II EARLY ATTEMPTS AT SÜB-SURFACE NAVIGATION Fulton's first efforts for mechanical navigation. Some early submarines: Bourne, Van Drebbel, Mercenne, de Son, Wilkins, Bushneil. ## CHAPTER III FULTON'S FIRST SUBMARINE Fulton begins work on a submarine (1797). Nautilus launched at Rouen (1800). Havre experiments. Fulton aided by Monge and Laplace. Received in audience by Napoleon Bonaparte. Hopes and disappointments. ## CHAPTER IV NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE Nautilus reconstructed and tested at Brest (1801). Reports to Monge, Laplace and Volney. Great expectations. Final rejection (1802). Partnership with Robert R. Livingston. Work begun on steamboat. British Admiralty aware of his submarine accomplishment. Induced to return to England (May, 1804). CHAPTER V THE "DRAWINGS AND DESCRIPTIONS" 54 CHAPTER VI THE BRITISH CONTRACT 78 Size of the "Drawings and Descriptions." Pseudonyms. Proposals. Contract with the British government. Was Fulton false to his principles

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Author

Barclay Parsons, Wm.

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

1922

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231889858

Category

nonfiction