History of Submarine

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Many experts and scholars in the 16th century have started looking forms and systems to make this underwater vehicles. Inspiration started from a boat or ship used. Clear relation, ship or boat gliding on the water. Some parts were in the water.
Then the thought: "What if all the parts of the ship can be in the water, but still able to glide and ride like a regular ship?"


Then with the help of science ideas to make the submarine appeared in 1578. William Bourne, a mathematician, designed a vessel covered by a watertight skin. The vessel is intended to be rowed in the water, because it was not yet known to the machine.

But this ship failed to be realized. Same idea forwarded by the Germans in 1620. The author named Cornelis Drebbel, who managed to make a boat dive as deep as 360 to 450 centimeters, rowed by 12 people.

The submarine is simple without a paddle and more advanced equipment was started by a schoolboy d Yale (USA), David Bushnell. The submarine shaped like egg creations, made of wood.

Equipment is the main breathing tube to the surface of the water, the propeller rotated by hand labor, which manages the buoyancy tank and the submarine sank it (if you want to dive, some water filled tank through a valve that can be set by foot and when raised to the top water, the water is pumped out by hand), a compass and a ballast that kept the ship position. Because the ship is then used for the war, the ship is also equipped with a torpedo.Yet this new year 1775!?

Propulsion submarines with nonhuman started by Robert Fulton. He used a steam engine to run the ship. And to facilitate the ship lurched forward, the vessel is made with a cigar shape.This cigar ship carrying 2 crew and was able to dive a couple of hours.

More advanced submarines belonging to the U.S. Navy again in 1900. PG creator named John Holland and his ship called Holland. 1590 centimeters long ship, run by a gasoline engine and electric power. As part of military equipment, the ship is equipped with weapons, including torpedoes, with a burst of air pressure.

But in use, gasoline often endanger the ship itself. Then to solve this problem, devised a machine with a more secure fuel, ie diesel, with diesel engines. This happened in 1905 and is a British vanguard. Diesel-powered submarine is then the codification of subsequent submarines. Today there are powered submarines until the 1000-1600 diesel horsepower.

After the second World War (P2D), equipment and advanced submarine capability further. In that war, for instance, the US-Navy submarines also use diesel engine types Fleet. Their submarine 90 meters long, with a crew of 85 people, speed 20 knots on the water and 10 knots in the water, 10 pieces of barrel torpedo mounted on the front and back of the ship, with the ability to release 24 pieces of torpedo each barrel. Each contains about 250 kiligram torpedo explosives. Speed ​​subs are actually able to reach 45 knots, but for security reasons the ship itself, the speed used only 20 knots. With this speed torpedo can be thrown with a speed of 29 knots.

The U.S. instead further demonstrate the power of the sea defense more solid. In 1954, the U.S. Navy-create a new history, with the launch of the first nuclear-powered submarine, called the Nautilus. In the same year all peak ability and speed submarine overthrown by it.Nautilus became the first submarine to cross the North Pole in 1958.

There is another peak, but by another submarine named Triton. In 1960 Triton successfully navigate all the oceans of the world under water. This ship and wade across 66,970 kilometers in 84 days. Not only that, in 1960, the U.S. also has begun to equip their submarines with missiles (missile) intercontinental. Ballistic missiles is 1930 kilometers to get through and destroy the targeted country.

But not only have U.S. nuclear submarine. Soviets had. Even according to military experts the world, the Soviet submarine fleet has more. Soviets had about 350 submarines, with around 60 submarines armed with ballistic missiles. The U.S. only had 135 submarines armed with 40 ballistic missiles at them. They're both barber war, so it should have a lot of armaments.

Other countries are more peaceful've certainly got a little more equipment. For example Indonesia, which only has 4 submarines, two artificial and two Soviet-made West Germany.Earlier were named Pasopati and Bramastra, while the latter Nanggala and Chakra.