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G0TEZ > UBOAT 14.01.06 15:55l 43 Lines 1544 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: We don't think he did that....
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From: G0TEZ@GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU
To : UBOAT@WW
In among the 'History' programmes we are deluged with on DTV in the UK, we
hav had couple on the submarine.
The trouble with the re enactors is that they think they can do things
better.
The first submarine ever; and I saw drawings of this in books as a child,
was one which rowed under water, the Thames actually. for three miles,
back in 1620 (when they didn't have kilometers).
The inventor was a man called Cornelius Drebble, a Dutchman. The drawings,
which they didn't show on TV BTW, showed, what seemed like a couple of
whalers, one upside down and attached to the other. It showed some men on
the inside, operating oars and what looked like a row of hot water
bottles, which contained a mystery substance which "cleaned the foul air".
The TV version was a one man craft, specialist built, with ballast tanks.
(It is much more likely that Drebble hung weights from the outside.)
The bottom line is that the thing was a dismal failure. Just like their
attempt at building Da Vinci's glider, where they seemed not to notice his
little diagrams, something Otto Lillienthal didn't do.
Our modern geniuses put an 'A' frame under it and tried to turn it into a
hang glider. It didn't work.
In addition to the above we have "how we think they built Stonehenge, the
Pyramids, Archimedes claw (that was a laugh!) and various bits of Roman
equipment."
Ah, well, I'll go and watch a few more repeats.
All the best from - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7FCR
Message timed: 11:15 GMT on 2006-Jan-14
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