The Submarine in War and Peace: Its Development and its Possibilities

INTRODUCTION

Jules Verne, in 1898, cabled to a New York publication: "While my book, 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,' is entirely a work of the imagination, my conviction is that all I said in it will come to pass. A thousand-mile voyage in the Baltimore submarine boat (the _Argonaut_) is evidence of this. This conspicuous success of submarine navigation in th...