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