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Le Plongeur

French submarine

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problems of propulsion

  • USS Nautilus
    In submarine: Toward diesel-electric power

    …officers built the 146-foot submarine Le Plongeur in 1864, powered by an 80-horsepower compressed-air engine, but the craft quickly exhausted its air tanks whenever it got under way. Development of the electric motor finally made electric propulsion practicable. The submarine Nautilus, built in 1886 by two Englishmen, was an all-electric…

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