Show I Strange as It Seems by John Hix l J Qu Z D 1 WAS FRED IN l Mc r iPp s Gr alle CoNW Con ioner W suED D DIN IN 1 JR r av C 4 TE GO F w- w wk k EG I l 5 ua M Arl RN I cy iy yA r MP yo yoI R s h c Fad A RESERVOIR ND A O 0 RAND Fla FoR AN AiR Buill Hj GI 1 ak 1 i r LAKE LAIE SUBMARINE SUB Soon after Simon Lake built the worlds world's first keel even-keel submersible Argonaut Jr by improving on Jules Vernes Verne's Nautilus the French novelist wrote to Lake congratulating him on his Ingenuity The Argonaut Jr was propelled when on the bottom by a man turning a crank on the inside Lake wrote later Our compressed air reservoir was a soda water fountain tank The compressed air pump was a plumbers plumber's hand pump capable of giving pounds pressure per square inch From this simple beginning all modern submarines of the worlds world's great navies have sprung |