Chinese Inventor Builds Oil Barrel Submarine

[Strategia]

"Shortly after unveiling his submarine, Tao expressed his interest to attach a drill with black powder charges and attempt to sink a wooden sailing ship."

(Props to whoever gets that.)

Wasn't there some nutty old scheme to do exactly that with some primitive submarines in some European war?

"Shortly after unveiling his submarine, Tao expressed his interest to attach a drill with black powder charges and attempt to sink a wooden sailing ship."

(Props to whoever gets that.)

Terry Pratchett's Jingo? I remember something very similar happened in that book. Leonard de Quirm invented a submarine (actually, he called a going-under-the-water-device) with a drill with which it could latch onto ships and be carried along. Nobby suggests that he use the drill to sink enemy ships and Leonard is horrified.

Actually, as others have said before, it's a reference to the Turtle, invented in 1775 and supposedly (I say "supposedly" because Wikipedia says some experts disagree for various reasons) used in an attempt to sink the British flagship, HMS Eagle, during the American Revolutionary War.

But you're both somewhat right, actually. The Dutch inventor Cornelius Drebbel built an experimental submarine for James I of England, but it was never used in war (to my knowledge). And Jingo's submarine is also a reference to the Turtle, although in design it resembles the Civil War-era Hunley rather than the Turtle, IIRC.

 

[The Great JT]

That's pretty impressive.

"Oh, you got government job? I got personal submarine!"

 

[Dancingman]

"Shortly after unveiling his submarine, Tao expressed his interest to attach a drill with black powder charges and attempt to sink a wooden sailing ship."

(Props to whoever gets that.)

Wasn't there some nutty old scheme to do exactly that with some primitive submarines in some European war?

"Shortly after unveiling his submarine, Tao expressed his interest to attach a drill with black powder charges and attempt to sink a wooden sailing ship."

(Props to whoever gets that.)

Terry Pratchett's Jingo? I remember something very similar happened in that book. Leonard de Quirm invented a submarine (actually, he called a going-under-the-water-device) with a drill with which it could latch onto ships and be carried along. Nobby suggests that he use the drill to sink enemy ships and Leonard is horrified.

Actually, as others have said before, it's a reference to the Turtle, invented in 1775 and supposedly (I say "supposedly" because Wikipedia says some experts disagree for various reasons) used in an attempt to sink the British flagship, HMS Eagle, during the American Revolutionary War.

But you're both somewhat right, actually. The Dutch inventor Cornelius Drebbel built an experimental submarine for James I of England, but it was never used in war (to my knowledge). And Jingo's submarine is also a reference to the Turtle, although in design it resembles the Civil War-era Hunley rather than the Turtle, IIRC.

Aha! I kept thinking "Didn't they do that during the American Revolution?" but I wanted to be safe so I just said some European war.

 

[Clashero]

"Shortly after unveiling his submarine, Tao expressed his interest to attach a drill with black powder charges and attempt to sink a wooden sailing ship."

(Props to whoever gets that.)

Wasn't there some nutty old scheme to do exactly that with some primitive submarines in some European war?

"Shortly after unveiling his submarine, Tao expressed his interest to attach a drill with black powder charges and attempt to sink a wooden sailing ship."

(Props to whoever gets that.)

Terry Pratchett's Jingo? I remember something very similar happened in that book. Leonard de Quirm invented a submarine (actually, he called a going-under-the-water-device) with a drill with which it could latch onto ships and be carried along. Nobby suggests that he use the drill to sink enemy ships and Leonard is horrified.

Actually, as others have said before, it's a reference to the Turtle, invented in 1775 and supposedly (I say "supposedly" because Wikipedia says some experts disagree for various reasons) used in an attempt to sink the British flagship, HMS Eagle, during the American Revolutionary War.

But you're both somewhat right, actually. The Dutch inventor Cornelius Drebbel built an experimental submarine for James I of England, but it was never used in war (to my knowledge). And Jingo's submarine is also a reference to the Turtle, although in design it resembles the Civil War-era Hunley rather than the Turtle, IIRC.

Well, thank you so much for the quick reply. I'm off to do some more research into the turtle.

 

[DogofRaw]

The picture shown here is cropped, look at the one on the link to see the full amount of work put into this.

Reminds me of the chinese farmer who built a helicopter out of wood, with elm rotor blades. He said he had a childhood dream of not having to clinb mountains.

http://gizmodo.com/5333293/fearless-chinese-farmer-builds-dubious-working-helicopter-using-wood-massive-cojones

 

[paragon1]

"Shortly after unveiling his submarine, Tao expressed his interest to attach a drill with black powder charges and attempt to sink a wooden sailing ship."

(Props to whoever gets that.)

You wouldn't be referring to the Hunley, would you?

 

[Strategia]

"Shortly after unveiling his submarine, Tao expressed his interest to attach a drill with black powder charges and attempt to sink a wooden sailing ship."

(Props to whoever gets that.)

You wouldn't be referring to the Hunley, would you?

.....I'm just going to let you read the rest of the thread now. =)

 

[Rigs83]

Now he has to paint it yellow.

 

[tsb247]

"Shortly after unveiling his submarine, Tao expressed his interest to attach a drill with black powder charges and attempt to sink a wooden sailing ship."

(Props to whoever gets that.)

"Shortly after unveiling his submarine, Tao expressed his interest to attach a drill with black powder charges and attempt to sink a wooden sailing ship."

(Props to whoever gets that.)

I kinda thought this resembled the Turtle.

Aw you beat me to it.

But how is he going to properly test this thing without a supply of air?

I suppose he could use a snorkel. It would be a nice temporary solution. All he would need to do is float a hose or two on styrofoam floats.

 

[toapat]

what about that volcano you made in 4th grade using the entire heating system of the school, explosives, and a supply closet to make the main shaft?