Episode 2.1: The Golden Age of Submarine Invention

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A History Of Submarines

Kaj Leers

4 episodes

3 days ago

While you're browsing podcasts, somewhere a dark, silent shadow lurks below the waves. Listening, chasing, aiming. Many died trying to invent a viable submarine. When some finally did, submarines changed the world. A History Of Submarines is a serial podcast about how submarines came into being and evolved into the hyper-quiet weapon they are today. Subscribe and listen to this pod, and you'll know everything there is to know. Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ahos/subscribe

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Episode 2.1: The Golden Age of Submarine Invention

A History Of Submarines

26 minutes 22 seconds

4 years ago

Episode 2.1: The Golden Age of Submarine Invention

In this episode, cut into several parts for your convenience, we dive into what is the decisive period for submarine invention. During this period, from 1800 until 1914, inventors were able to learn from each other owing to the much easier proliferation of knowledge.

From Robert Fulton's famous 'Nautilus' and his time working for Napoleon Bonaparte to Wilhelm Bauer and the German Confederation to Spain, this first part covers 1800 to approximately 1850.

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Part two, up in two weeks, will also focus on submersibles in the American Civil War. Part three, up after that (after a little vacation break), will focus mostly on that major invention that gave submersibles the punch it needed: the torpedo. The end of part three will also see submersibles on the brink of World War One...