- Publisher: Pegasus
- Year: 2017
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 222x143mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9781681777818
- Product code: 535209
Going Deep
John Philip Holland and the Invention of the Attack Submarine
Lawrence Goldstone New Paperback Illustrated
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After surveying early submersibles such as the Confederate Hunley that sank the USS Housatonic in the American Civil War, this account profiles the inventor of the first truly viable submarines: the Irish-born, New York-based schoolteacher John Philip Holland. It explains his technical innovations and recounts his struggles with Congress, Wall Street backers and a sceptical naval bureaucracy to gain acceptance for a weapon that would prove deadly in two world wars.
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From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to The Hunt for Red October, readers the world over have demonstrated an enduring fascination with travel under the sea. Yet the riveting story behind the invention of the submarine-an epic saga of genius, persistence, ruthlessness, and deceit-is almost completely unknown.
Like Henry Ford and the Wright brothers, John Philip Holland was completely self-taught, a brilliant man raised in humble circumstances, earning his living as a schoolteacher and choirmaster. But all the while he was obsessed with creating a machine that could successfully cruise beneath the waves. His struggle to unlock the mystery behind controlled undersea navigation would take three decades, during which he endured skepticism, disappointment, and betrayal. But his indestructible belief in himself and his ideas led him to finally succeed where so many others had failed.
Going Deep is a vivid chronicle of the fierce battles not only under the water, but also in the back rooms of Wall Street and the committee rooms of Congress. A rousing adventure-surrounded by an atmosphere of corruption and greed-at its heart this a story of bravery, passion, and the unbreakable determination to succeed against long odds.
Like Henry Ford and the Wright brothers, John Philip Holland was completely self-taught, a brilliant man raised in humble circumstances, earning his living as a schoolteacher and choirmaster. But all the while he was obsessed with creating a machine that could successfully cruise beneath the waves. His struggle to unlock the mystery behind controlled undersea navigation would take three decades, during which he endured skepticism, disappointment, and betrayal. But his indestructible belief in himself and his ideas led him to finally succeed where so many others had failed.
Going Deep is a vivid chronicle of the fierce battles not only under the water, but also in the back rooms of Wall Street and the committee rooms of Congress. A rousing adventure-surrounded by an atmosphere of corruption and greed-at its heart this a story of bravery, passion, and the unbreakable determination to succeed against long odds.
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