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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] steam sub, and Air Service Medical



In a message dated 2/10/2003 8:43:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, publisher@thegreenbayweb.com writes:

> Have there actually been any reciprocating steam engine 
> powered 
> submersibles?  Hmmm....

Wasn't the Nordenfelt of the 1880s powered by steam?
For that matter there were subs of 1800s that used so
called soda boilers, AIR they used heat of dissolving
sodium hydroxide in water to heat the boiler.
Larry Murray