{"id":365,"date":"2023-06-21T16:56:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T16:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2023-06-22T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T09:10:34","slug":"who-invented-the-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/who-invented-the-submarine\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Invented the First Submarine &#038; When?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Who Invented The Submarine?<\/strong>\u00a0The submarine has origins in different parts of our history. The first was simply an image created by Leonardo da Vinci, although there was also a British-born mathematician named Willian Burne who drew different diagrams for a submarine in the year 1570. But the truth is that both only made images and neither created it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It was not until the year 1620 that Cornelius Van Drebbel covered a wooden boat with pieces of the foot, which in turn he covered with wax to make it bear the water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On each side of the boat were the holes for introducing the oars, which were also covered with a light layer of leather, also waterproof.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In order to stay underwater, it is believed that there were tubes that kept floating on the surface and provided air to the men who were in the boat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They are also thought to have had a liquid that converted carbon dioxide into oxygen. What is known is that there were pig bladders on the edges of the boat so that the boat could sink as they filled with water. To go up, you just had to empty them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Between 1620 and 1624 this contraption was tested on the\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210924155401\/https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/River_Thames\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">River Thames<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Who Invented The Submarine?<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Submarine for Military Use<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The first to create a submarine for military use was\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210924155401\/https:\/\/connecticuthistory.org\/david-bushnell-and-his-revolutionary-submarine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Bushnell in 1776<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0creating a wooden one, which was powered by propellers. The first idea was to use it to stick small explosives to the bottom of English ships, and although the submarine worked very well, the explosives failed to sink any ship.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John P. Holland and Simon Lake were two rival inventors against each other who were responsible for creating the first real forms of a nephew.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Japan and Russia liked the design created by Simon Lake, while the United States preferred Holland\u2019s designs. Both used steam or gas engines to propel the trip to the surface, and when submerging, in both cases, electric motors were used.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But the first submarine that can be considered a military type and in turn useful, was the one built by Isaac Peral at the end of the 19th century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Download App:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210924155401\/https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.cyclopsgames.subsim3d&amp;hl=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submarine \u2013 Apps on Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But it was not until the First World War, almost three hundred years later after the first patch of what was known at the time as \u201csubmersible\u201d was sketched, when the effectiveness of this peculiar weapon of war known as a submarine was verified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In fact, one of these submarines sank a passenger ship in 1915 in which hundreds of passengers of American origin were traveling, and which is considered one of the reasons why the United States subsequently declared war on Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Also, may interest you:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordant-thought.com\/who-invented-the-atomic-bomb\/\">Who Invented The Atomic Bomb First?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordant-thought.com\/who-invented-the-microscope\/\">Who Invented The Microscope In Which Year?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordant-thought.com\/who-invented-the-abacus\/\">Who Invented The Abacus?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordant-thought.com\/who-invented-the-power-banks\/\">Who Invented the Power Banks?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210924155401\/https:\/\/www.concordant-thought.com\/who-invented-vinyl-flooring\/\">Who Invented Vinyl Flooring?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.concordant-thought.com\/how-do-blue-jays-get-their-color\/\">How Do Blue Jays Get Their Color?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.concordant-thought.com\/why-do-flamingos-stand-on-one-leg\/\">Why Do Flamingos Stand On One Leg?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.concordant-thought.com\/how-many-earths-can-fit-in-the-sun\/\">How Many Earths Can Fit In The Sun?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Although if there is a submarine famous around the world and for very different and much more entertaining reasons, that is the one that appears in \u201c<strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210924155401\/https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_Sea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twenty thousand leagues under the sea<\/a><\/strong>\u201c, a work by Jules Verne inspired by the French submarine known as Nautilus and built in the year 1800, although it must be said that the fictional writer was much more evolved than the real one.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who Invented The Submarine?\u00a0The submarine has origins in different parts of our history. The first was simply an image created by Leonardo da Vinci, although there was also a British-born mathematician named Willian Burne who drew different diagrams for a submarine in the year 1570. 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