Timeline for What inspired Edgar Allan Poe's submarine?
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| Oct 13 at 6:34 | history | edited | Rand al'Thor♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 13 at 4:59 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 11 at 0:48 | comment | added | Italian Philosopher | IIRC there are a number of really big creatures in the Thousand and One Nights, under Simbad's voyages. The roc. And also an island that turns out to be a sea creature on which people lived. Or at least there were trees and stuff. Could this be an inspiration? The description given isn't very clear whether the thing is organic or mechanical. | |
| Oct 10 at 21:10 | comment | added | Giter | Did an earlier passage mention it going underwater like a submarine? Because "The belly, which floated beneath the surface", "The back was flat", and "extended upwards of six spines" sounds more like he's describing a sailing ship with six masts. | |
| Oct 10 at 19:40 | comment | added | user14111 | And submarines were used in the American Civil War, a few years before Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. | |
| Oct 10 at 19:00 | comment | added | Valorum | @DavidW - I'm still intrigued as to what inspired him though. Good question. | |
| Oct 10 at 18:49 | comment | added | DavidW | And real-life diving suits date only slightly later than the first experimental submarines. Both of these technologies would have been familiar to an informed person in the mid 19th century. | |
| Oct 10 at 18:45 | comment | added | Valorum | Submarines have been successfully used since the 1600s, mainly as attractions; en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_submarines | |
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| S Oct 10 at 18:32 | history | asked | Mike Serfas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |