Show Paris Claims Credit for First Periscope Paris The The submarine periscope was not Invented by Sir toward Howard Grubb I Englishman ng as generally believed but bUI by a Frenchman according to a state state- ment went made before the French Academy Acad emy envy of ot Sciences M. M Jean tean Hey French Inventor claimed that he himself conceived the first Oret periscope and that It was ose used aboard the French submarine in 1801 1891 At that time he be assert asserted Id I'd England had no underwater craft and the British government disapproved ed of them lit SI Hey ley attributed the perfection ot of the marine periscope to another Frenchman Jules Carpentier who constructed his hi model In 1807 7 He concluded by saying that other nations have ha since copied the principle of the Carpentier periscope |