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  2. History of submarines - Wikipedia

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    The first electrically powered submarines were built by the Polish engineer Stefan Drzewiecki in 1881, he designed and constructed the world's first submarine in Russia, and later other engineers used his design in their constructions, they were James Franklin Waddington and the team of James Ash and Andrew Campbell in England, Dupuy de Lôme ...

  3. Stefan Drzewiecki - Wikipedia

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    It was the first submarine in the world with electric battery-powered propulsion. [8] He developed the theory of gliding flight, developed a method for the manufacture of ship and plane propellers (1892), and presented a general theory for screw-propeller thrust (1920). He is known for developing several models of early submarines for the ...

  4. General Dynamics Electric Boat - Wikipedia

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    Cuttlefish was the first submarine built at EB's plant in Groton, Connecticut which has been its primary submarine manufacturing facility ever since. EB was the lead yard for several classes of submarines ( Perch , Salmon , Sargo , Tambor , Gar , Mackerel and Gato ) prior to World War II.

  5. S1W reactor - Wikipedia

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    The plant was the prototype for the power system of USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, which used the improved S2W reactor. The specific location within the vast Idaho National Laboratory where the S1W prototype was located was the Naval Reactors Facility .

  6. French submarine Gymnote (Q1) - Wikipedia

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    The submarine was built with a steel single hull, a detachable lead keel, and three hydroplanes on each side. She made over 2,000 dives, using 204 cell batteries. She was armed with two 355 mm (14 in) torpedoes. Gymnote was partly inspired by the earlier development of the submarine Plongeur, the world's first mechanically powered submarine.

  7. Holland Torpedo Boat Company - Wikipedia

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    The US Navy gave that title to Naval Submarine Base New London as the first submarine base. Naval Submarine Base New London was commissioned by the US Navy in 1916 as a dedicated submarine base. [27] The Electric Boat Company built HMS Holland 1 the first Royal Navy submarine. HMS Holland 1 was launched on October 2, 1901.

  8. List of pre-20th century submarines - Wikipedia

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    Built for the Confederate States Navy, first combat submarine to sink a warship and then sank. Located at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in Charleston, South Carolina. Intelligent Whale: Price and Bushnell: 1863: Sep 1872: On exhibit at the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey. Ictíneo II: Narcís Monturiol: 20 May 1864: Dec 1867

  9. Cornelis Drebbel - Wikipedia

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    Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel [1] (Dutch pronunciation: [kɔrˈneːlɪ ˈɕaːkɔpsoːn ˈdrɛbəl]; [a] 1572 – 7 November 1633) was a Dutch engineer and inventor. He was the builder of the first operational submarine in 1620 and an innovator who contributed to the development of measurement and control systems, optics and chemistry.