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The Boys' Book of Submarines

Chapter 17: INDEX
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Aimed at young readers, the book surveys the development of undersea craft from early experimental designs to contemporary types and explains how submarines are built, controlled, and operated. It provides practical instructions and diagrams for constructing and running model submarines and torpedoes, and describes hull structure, ballast and diving systems, power plants (gasoline and electric), periscopes, armament, mines, signaling methods, and crew accommodations. Detailed chapters address torpedo construction and launching, submarine armament and defenses, and electronic and optical sensing, while photographs and drawings illustrate mechanisms and encourage hands-on learning about submarine technology and its role in modern naval conflict.

INDEX

  • Air chasers, submarine, 195
  • Air, compressed, 67
  • Air compressor pumps, 67
  • Air control mechanism of a model submarine, 32, 42
  • Aircraft attacks, 177
  • Air flashes, 67
  • Airplane, the, 195
  • versus submarine, 139
  • Air pressure required to drive torpedo, 101
  • Airship, the, 195
  • Air tanks of a torpedo, 108
  • Action, the model torpedo in, 96
  • Aerial, wireless, 55
  • Allies’ blockade, 200
  • Allies, the, 1, 176, 185, 200
  • Ananias club, 139
  • Anchor, mushroom, 69
  • Angle, definition of, 59
  • Angle indicator, 60
  • Armament, definition of, 117
  • Arming merchantmen with guns, 187
  • Artemus Ward, 23
  • Attacks, how a submarine, 171
  • Automatic gyro control, 101
  • pendulum control, 102
  • Automobile torpedo, 92, 115
  • Auxiliary, definition of, 171
  • Awash condition, 62
  • Awash, definition of, 23
  • Baby Holland, 199
  • Back pressure, 68
  • Balance chamber, 101
  • Ballast pumps, what they do, 66
  • Ballast tank of a model submarine, 28
  • Ballasting the model submarine, 40
  • Balloon, dirigible, 189
  • Base ship, what it is for, 161
  • Bell for submarine signaling, 151
  • Bell or violin signaling system, 151
  • Blackheads, 92
  • Blind fish of Mammoth Cave, 58
  • Blockade, how the U. S. can break the U-boat, 204
  • the Allies’, 200
  • Blockade, the submarine plan to break the U-boat, 205
  • the wooden ship idea, 204
  • a way to lift the U-boat, 195
  • by U-boats, 200
  • Blockades of the warring nations, great, 200
  • Body of a model torpedo, 92
  • Bomb, clock-work of a submarine, 10
  • submarine, 9
  • Bomb idea, the, 116
  • the old, 91
  • Book of wireless, 149
  • Bores of Allies’ submarine guns, 120
  • Boy of the Prehistoric Age, 3
  • Boy, the second submarine, 1
  • when he learned to swim, 3
  • Bushnell’s submarine, 7
  • Bushnell, submarine boat inventor, 8
  • Bulkhead door, electrically operated, 59
  • Bulkhead in model submarine, putting in, 34
  • Buoyancy, 63
  • experiment in, 67
  • natural, 67
  • reserve, 63, 67
  • Buoyancy tanks, what they are for, 66
  • Caliber, definition of, 188
  • Campbell and Ash, English submarine boat inventors, 14
  • Carburetor, for gasoline engine, 76
  • what it does, 78
  • Centennial Exposition, 13
  • Central Powers of Europe, 1
  • Central Powers, the, 176
  • Chaser, how it chases a submarine, 192
  • shooting the guns of the, 193
  • Chasers, submarines, 116
  • Chasers for submarines, air, 195
  • Cipher code, definition of, 166
  • Clock-work of a submarine bomb, 10
  • Collapsible boat, 178
  • Colored light signaling system, 146
  • Commanding officer, the, 164
  • Commutator of model electric motor, 39
  • Compass, 55
  • Compass courses, 167
  • Compass, gyroscopic, 58
  • Compartment, diving control, 60
  • mine, 68
  • torpedo, 68
  • Compartments, watertight, 53
  • Compressed air, 67
  • Compressed air action gun, 119
  • Compressed air for driving engine, 105
  • Compressed air tanks, 100
  • Compression stroke of engine, 78
  • Conditions of the submarine, four, 62
  • Conductivity system, how it works, 155
  • parts of, 155
  • Conductivity system of signaling, 154
  • Connecting up the power plant circuit of the model submarine, 42
  • Conning tower of a model submarine, 42
  • Conning tower, outside of the, 54
  • peep into the, 56
  • Contact mines, 122
  • Contact mine, how it works, 123
  • Contraband, definition of, 178
  • Course of a torpedo, 110
  • Crews, hard to sign, when, 160
  • Crew of a submarine, 69
  • Davis, torpedo inventor, 111
  • Deck of a model submarine, 28, 35
  • Defense, the submarine flotilla as a means of, 173
  • Depth indicator, 60
  • Depth meter, 59
  • Depuy de Lôme, French submarine inventor, 16
  • Destroyers, submarine, 177
  • Destroying mother ships, 188
  • Detonating or firing mechanism, 98
  • Deutschland, cruising radius of the, 204
  • her great engines, 204
  • her valuable cargo, 203
  • some facts about the, 201
  • the captain and crew of the, 203
  • the largest submarine, 201
  • Diesel engine, 80
  • how it works, 80
  • Diesel, German gas engine inventor, 80
  • Dirigible balloon, 189
  • Dives, how a submarine, 64, 68
  • Dive is made, why a shallow, 65
  • Dive, time it takes for submarine to, 66
  • Diving control compartment, 60
  • Diving rudder, 53, 59
  • of a model torpedo, 95
  • Diving rudders, fore, 64
  • Diving wheel, 60
  • Doyle, inventor of Sherlock Holmes, 130
  • Draw, definition of, 201
  • Dry cells for model electric motor, 35
  • Dry cells, where to buy, 35
  • Dummy heads, 167
  • Dynamo, definition of, 85, 86
  • Dynamo motor and storage battery system, 85
  • Eagle, first warship to be attacked by a submarine, 9
  • Ears of a submarine, 143
  • Electric controlled mine, 124
  • Electric motor, 34, 85
  • commutator of an, 39
  • discovery of the, 14
  • where to buy an, 35
  • Electric motor current of a model submarine, 43
  • Electric motor for model submarine, 35
  • Electric motors, 14, 56
  • Electric power plant, why it is needed, 85
  • Electric submarine, invention of the, 14
  • Electric switch of model submarine, 36
  • Electrically controlled mines, 122
  • Electricity for the submarine, 15
  • Enemy ships, gauging the distance of, 136
  • Enemy of the submarine, a new, 139
  • Engines, 73
  • Engine Building for Boys, 74
  • Engine, carburetor for gasoline, 76
  • Engines, compressed air for driving, 105
  • Engine, Diesel, 80
  • that drives the torpedo, the, 104
  • faults of the steam, 74
  • four cycle, 75
  • gasoline, 75
  • Engines, horse power of, 83
  • last word in submarine, 80
  • Engine works, how the Diesel, 80
  • how a gasoline, 75
  • Exhaust stroke, 78
  • Experiment in buoyancy, 67
  • Explosive, amount needed for a torpedo, 98
  • high powered, 97
  • Explosive compounds, 98
  • Eye, the first submarine, 130
  • Eye of submarine, 55
  • wonderful, 129
  • Firing mechanism, 98
  • First Holland submarine, 5
  • First submarine boat, 5
  • Fish, air bladder of, 2
  • the first submarine, 1
  • Fish of Mammoth Cave, blind, 58
  • Floating dock, 162
  • Flashlight system of signaling, 146
  • Fly, How to, 196
  • Freedom of the seas, 185
  • Fuel mixture, 76
  • Fulton’s experiments on the Seine River, 10
  • Fulton’s first steam boat, 12
  • Fulton’s first submarine, 10
  • Fulton’s Nautilus, 10
  • Fulton plans to rescue Napoleon, 12
  • Fulton, submarine boat inventor, Robert, 10
  • Galley of a submarine, 70
  • Game, naval war, 96
  • Garrett, English submarine boat inventor, 12
  • Garrett’s steam propelled submarine, 12
  • Gas and electric power combined for the submarine, 15
  • Gas engine, 34
  • for the submarine, 15
  • Gas engines, two cycle, 82
  • Gasoline, 79
  • Gasoline engine, 75
  • how it works, 75
  • Gauging the distance of enemy ships, 136
  • Granddaddy of the modern submarine, 6
  • German Empire, the, 200
  • German policy, 115
  • Grecian galleys of old, 5
  • Greek meets Greek, when, 206
  • Gun, compressed air action, 119
  • the Lewis machine, 196
  • need of a quick-action, 117
  • spring action, 118
  • Guncotton, 97
  • Guns, arming merchantmen with, 187
  • Guns, arming the submarine with, 116
  • Guns, bores of Allies’ submarine, 120
  • rapid-fire machine, 115
  • Guns of the chaser, shooting the, 193
  • Gyro control, automatic, 101
  • Gyroscope, action of a, 102
  • compass, 58
  • toy, 102
  • Heart of a submarine, 73
  • High tension current, 79
  • High tension magnets, 76
  • Holland and Lake combined type of boats, 17
  • Holland submarine, 51 the first, 5
  • Holland, submarine inventor, 16
  • baby, 199
  • Horse power of submarine engines, 83
  • Horsman Co., toy dealers, 102
  • How to Fly, 196
  • How the hull is made, 52
  • How to make and work a model submarine, 23
  • How a real submarine is made and works, 51
  • How to work your model submarine, 47
  • Hull, definition, 51
  • how it is made, 52
  • inside the, 55
  • of a model submarine, 24
  • Hydroplanes of a submarine, 64
  • Hydrostatic control, 103
  • Ichthyoid form, 2
  • Inside the hull, 55
  • Installing the motor in model submarine, 39
  • Integral, definition of, 164
  • Inventing for Boys, 58
  • Inventors of the submarine, 4
  • Inventors of submarine,
  • American, 7
  • Knot, definition of, 13
  • Koenig, captain of the Deutschland, 203
  • Krupp, German gun makers, 118
  • Lake, his plan for undersea merchantmen, 205
  • submarine inventor, 16
  • submersible, 51
  • submersible boat, 16
  • Latent heat, 106
  • Latitude, how found, 167
  • Laying mine fields in harbors, 187
  • Lee, operator of Bushnell’s submarine, 10
  • Lenticular, definition of, 132
  • Lewis machine gun, 196
  • Lewis, machine gun inventor, 196
  • Lieutenants, how to pronounce, 165
  • Light condition, 61
  • Listening in, 150
  • Log distances, 167
  • Longitude, how found, 167
  • Lupius, Austrian torpedo inventor, 92
  • Magic of Science, a book, 133
  • Magneto electro machine, 79
  • Magneto, high tension, 76
  • Magnetic lines of force, stray, 58
  • Main parts of a submarine, 57
  • Maine was sunk, way the, 122
  • Making the superstructure of a model submarine, 41
  • Mammoth Cave, blind fish of, 58
  • Maneuver, definition of, 166
  • Mayflower, landing of the, 5
  • Merchant submarine, the first, 201
  • Merchantman, how a submarine attacks a, 177
  • Mercuric fulminate, 99
  • Millimeter, definition of, 119
  • Mine compartment, 68
  • Mine, electric controlled, 124
  • Mine fields in harbors, laying, 187
  • Mine layer, 69, 120
  • Mine works, how a contact, 123
  • Mines, how they are made, 122
  • how a submarine lays, 120
  • kinds of submarine, 121
  • submarine, 115
  • Model submarine, air control mechanism of a, 32
  • ballast tank for a, 28
  • ballasting the, 40
  • conning tower of a, 43
  • how to make and work, 23
  • how to work your, 47
  • hull of a, 24
  • installing motor in, 39
  • painting your, 47
  • parts of a, 24
  • periscope of, 48
  • power plant in, 34
  • power plant of a, 24
  • propeller for a, 45
  • propeller-shaft for, 39
  • pusher control for, 36
  • rudder for the, 45
  • superstructure of a, 41
  • torpedo, how to make a, 92
  • Model torpedo, in action, the, 96
  • body of a, 92
  • motor for a, 95
  • rudders of a, 93
  • Mother ships, destroying, 188
  • Mother ship, what it is, 162
  • Motor for a model torpedo, 95
  • Motor, rubber strand, 95
  • Munitions, definition of, 115
  • Mushroom anchor, 69
  • Napoleon, attempts to rescue with a submarine, 12
  • Nautical mile, 13
  • Nautilus, Fulton’s first submarine, 10
  • Naval war game, 96
  • Navigating room, 60
  • Neutral, definition of, 176
  • Nordenfelt, Swedish submarine boat inventor, 13
  • Nose and tail blocks of a model submarine, 26
  • Offense, the submarine flotilla as a means of, 174
  • Painting your model submarine, 47
  • Paleozoic era, submarine of, 2
  • Parts of a model submarine, 24
  • Parts of a submarine, 52
  • Pendulum control, automatic, 104
  • Percussion caps, 100
  • Permutation in signaling, 145
  • Periscope, 55, 129
  • complete view, 137
  • the first, 130
  • how it got its name, 129
  • how it is made, 134
  • how to make a simple, 130
  • how it works, 131
  • Periscope, latest type of, 136
  • limited use of the, 138
  • of the model submarine, 48
  • the modern, 132
  • Personnel of a submarine crew, 159
  • Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock, 5
  • Pipes for model submarine, 32
  • Pipes, where to buy them, 32
  • Pirate, submarine, 4
  • Plans for a model submarine, 23
  • Plantéol, inventor of the storage battery, 14
  • Power plant, 33
  • Power plant circuit of model submarine, 44
  • Power plant in model submarine, 34
  • Power plant of a model submarine, 24, 32
  • how it is hooked up, 36
  • Power plant is needed, why an electric, 85
  • Power stroke of engine, 77, 78
  • Power unit, 75
  • Prehistoric boy, 2
  • Prime mover, 75
  • Prisms, reflecting, 133
  • Projectile, how a bow trajectory affects a, 194
  • Projectile, how a flat trajectory affects a, 194
  • Propeller for a model submarine, 45
  • Propeller-shaft of a model submarine, 39
  • Propeller-shaft of a torpedo, 106
  • Propellers of a torpedo, the, 106
  • Pterodactyl, largest flying creature, the, 3
  • Pumps, air-compressor, 67
  • Pusher control of a model submarine, 36
  • Quadrant, 60
  • Quick-action guns, 117
  • Raw recruits, breaking in, 166
  • Reducing valve, 101
  • Reflecting prisms, 133
  • Reserve buoyancy, 63, 67
  • Rise of the submarine, 172
  • Rookies, what they are, 164
  • Roosevelt, inventor of the Ananias Club, 139
  • Rubber strand motor, 95
  • Rudder, diving, 59
  • for the model submarine, 45
  • Rudders, fore diving, 64
  • diving, 53
  • of a model torpedo, 93
  • Rudders, of the torpedo, steering and diving, 107
  • Scout, the submarine as a, 175
  • Sea anchor, 69
  • Searchlight signal system, 146
  • Semaphore for signaling, 144
  • Servo-motor, the, 103
  • Setting ballast tank in the hull of model submarine, 34
  • Shape of a submarine, 52
  • Shipping, definition of, 185
  • tonnage per month, 205
  • Ships, gauging the distance of enemy, 136
  • Shooting for Boys, 193
  • Shooting, the guns of the chaser, 193
  • the torpedo, 91
  • a torpedo at a ship, 107
  • Signaling with colored lights, 146
  • with the flashlight system, 146
  • permutation in, 145
  • with the searchlight system, 146
  • semaphore for, 144
  • by underwater “wireless,” 154
  • wigwag, 144
  • Signaling, with the wireless telegraph system, 147
  • Signaling systems, kinds of, 144
  • underwater, 151
  • Skins, inner and outer, 53
  • Skin of a model submarine, 27
  • Solder, how to, 28
  • Soldering fluid, 28
  • Spark plug, 79
  • Specifications for a model submarine, 23
  • Spirit level, 60
  • Spring action gun, 118
  • Squadron, definition of, 172
  • Steamboat, Fulton’s first, 12
  • Steam engine, faults of, 74
  • Steam propelled submarine, first, 12
  • Steering rudder of a model torpedo, 95
  • Steering rudders, 53
  • Steering wheel, 55
  • Storage batteries, 14, 34, 74, 85, 86
  • Storage battery and dynamo motor system, 85
  • Storage battery, inventor of the, 74
  • Submarine air chasers, 195
  • Submarine, air control mechanism of a, 32
  • ballast tank for a, 28
  • Submarine, ballasting the, 40
  • as a blockader, the, 176
  • Submarine bases, destroying, 126
  • Submarine bell, 151
  • Submarine boat, the first, 5
  • what it is, 16
  • Submarine bomb, 9
  • Submarine chaser, 80-foot, 189
  • 110-foot, 189
  • Submarine chasers, 116, 177
  • kinds of, 188
  • Submarine in Chesapeake Bay, a giant, 200
  • clock-work of a, 10
  • complement of a, 164
  • conning tower of a model, 42
  • construction of Bushnell’s, 8
  • Submarine craft, early conditions on, 159
  • crew of a, 69
  • crew, personnel of, 159
  • cruising radius of a, 162
  • Submarine destroyers, 177
  • the Deutschland, 201
  • development of the, 4
  • Submarine duty, how men are trained for, 164
  • electric power for the, 15
  • Submarine engines, last word in, 80
  • Submarine eye, the first, 130
  • the first merchant, 201
  • first steam propelled, 12
  • the first torpedo fired by a, 9
  • first torpedo tube, 13
  • Submarine flotilla as a means of defense, the, 173
  • Submarine flotilla as a means of offense, 174
  • four states of the, 61
  • Fulton’s Nautilus, 10
  • Fulton’s turned down, 10
  • Submarine galley, 70
  • gas power for the, 15
  • a giant, 200
  • granddaddy of the modern, 6
  • Submarine, with guns, arming the, 116
  • Bushnell’s, 7
  • Bushnell’s second, 8
  • guns, bores of Allies’, 120
  • heart of a, 73
  • Holland, 51
  • Holland type of, 16
  • how it attacks, 171
  • how it attacks a merchantman, 177
  • how it came to be, 1
  • how a chaser chases a, 192
  • how it dives, 64, 68
  • how to make and work a model, 23
  • how it is submerged, 65
  • how to work your model, 47
  • hull of a model, 24
  • hydroplanes of a, 64
  • installing motor in model, 39
  • invention of the electric, 14
  • invention of the screw-driven, 9
  • inventors of the, 4
  • Lake type of, 16
  • the largest, 201
  • Submarine lays mines, how a, 120
  • Submarine is made and works, how a real, 51
  • main parts of a, 57
  • marvelous tongue and ears of the, 143
  • Submarine meets submarine, when, 206
  • Submarine mines, 115
  • Submarine mines, kinds of, 120
  • a modern, 18
  • new enemy of the, 139
  • Nordenfelt, 13
  • painting your model, 47
  • Submarine of the Paleozoic era, parts of, 52
  • parts of a model, 24
  • periscope of the model, 48
  • Submarine pirate, 4
  • power plant of a model, 24
  • power plant in model, 34
  • propeller for a model, 45
  • propeller-shaft for a model, 39
  • pusher control for a model, 36
  • to rescue Napoleon, attempts with a, 12
  • rise of the, 172
  • Robert Fulton’s first, 10
  • rudder for the model, 45
  • in the Russo-Japanese War, 172
  • schemes for outwitting the, 186
  • as a scout, the, 175
  • shape of a, 52
  • in the Spanish-American War, 172
  • superstructure of a model, 41
  • time it takes to dive, 66
  • torpedo, how to make a model, 92
  • uses of the, 170
  • Van Drebel’s, 5
  • what it is, 1
  • wonderful eye of, 129
  • Submarine works with the fleet, how the, 173
  • Submarines, airplanes, a new enemy of, 139
  • Submarines, American inventors of, 7
  • cruising radius of Uncle Sam’s, 199
  • the first, 1
  • Submarines for the trans-Atlantic service, 206
  • types of, 16
  • your Uncle Sammy’s latest, 199
  • when they attack in pairs, 179
  • Submerged condition, 62
  • Submerge, definition of, 51
  • how the boat is kept, 65
  • Submersible boat, Lake, 16
  • what it is, 16
  • Submersible, Lake, 51
  • Suction stroke of engine, 77
  • Superstructure of a model submarine, 41
  • Superstructure, what it is, 53
  • Synthetic stones, definition of, 203
  • Tactician, definition of, 164
  • Targets, floating, 167
  • Telescope, how it is made, 132
  • how it is made and works, 133
  • Tell-tale, 59
  • Timer for gasoline engines, 79
  • Time fuse, 112
  • TNT for torpedoes, 97
  • Tongue of a submarine, 143
  • Torpedo in action, the model, 96
  • Torpedo, air pressure required to drive, 101
  • Torpedo air tanks, 108
  • automobile, 92, 115
  • body of the, 100
  • body of a model, 92
  • Torpedo with a cannon in it, 111
  • Torpedo compartment, 68
  • course of a, 110
  • Torpedo director, a, 100
  • engine that drives the, 104
  • Torpedo fired by a submarine, the first, 9
  • first submarine, 92
  • how it is aimed, 109
  • how to make a model submarine, 92
  • high powered explosive for the, 97
  • how a real one is made, 108
  • how it is shot at a ship, 107
  • is made, how a real, 97
  • making and shooting the, 91
  • motor for a model, 95
  • Torpedo practice, 167
  • propellers of a, 106
  • Torpedo, rudders of a model, 93
  • steering and diving rudders for a, 107
  • Torpedo, warhead of, 93, 97
  • weight of, 68
  • Torpedo tube, the, 108
  • submarine, first, 13
  • Torpedoes, TNT for, 97
  • Totally submerged condition, 62
  • Trajectory, bow, 194
  • Trajectory, flat, 191
  • Trans-Atlantic submarine service, 206
  • Trimming tanks, 58
  • Trimming tanks are used, why, 62
  • Tuning in, 150
  • Two-cycle gas engines, 82
  • U-boat blockade, 200
  • a way to lift the, 195
  • U-boat, German captain of a, 109
  • U-boat menace, 195
  • U-boat, what it is, 1
  • U-boats, German, 185
  • plans for destroying the, 187
  • Uncle Sammy’s latest submarines, 199
  • Uncle Sammy, your, 196
  • Underwater signaling system, 151
  • Valve, reducing, 101
  • Van Drebel, submarine boat inventor, 5
  • Van Drebel’s experiments on the Thames River, 6
  • Van Drebel’s submarine, 5
  • Violin transmitter, 152
  • Violin or bell signaling system, 51
  • Von Bernstorff, Ex-German Ambassador to the United States, 203
  • Warhead of a torpedo, 93, 97
  • Warplane, 189
  • Water pressure control, 103
  • War time conditions, 167
  • War between U. S. and Spain, 122
  • Watertight compartments, 55
  • Watertight doors, 56
  • Whitehead, American torpedo inventor, 92
  • Wigwag signaling, 144
  • Windjammers of old, 70
  • Wireless aerial, 55
  • Wireless, how it works, 149
  • Wireless telegraph system, 147
  • Wireless system, parts of, 147
  • Wireless in war time, 168
  • Work your model submarine, how to, 47
  • Worm gears, 56
  • Zédé, Gustave, French submarine inventor, 16