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Title: One Scientist May Have Finally Figured Out the Mystery of Why a Civil War Submarine Sank
Author: Evan Lubofsky
Narrator: Desiree Fultz
Format: Original Recording
Length: 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-30-17
Publisher: Smithsonian
Genres: Newspapers & Magazines, Science & Technology
Publisher's Summary:
Around 6:30 p.m. on February 17, 1864, eight men crammed into the Confederate submarineH. L. Hunley, a self-propelled metal tube attached to a bomb, and slipped quietly into the freezing black water off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. The crew hand-cranked the sub more than six kilometers toward its targetthe Union blockader USSHousatonicand surfaced like a leviathan for the charge. By 9:00 p.m., it was over: TheHunleyhad thrust its spar-mounted torpedo into theHousatonics hull and within seconds, 60 kilograms of black powder had caved in the ship.
"One Scientist May Have Finally Figured Out the Mystery of Why a Civil War Submarine Sank" is from smithsonianmag.com, published on August 23, 2017.
Title: One Scientist May Have Finally Figured Out the Mystery of Why a Civil War Submarine Sank
Author: Evan Lubofsky
Narrator: Desiree Fultz
Format: Original Recording
Length: 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-30-17
Publisher: Smithsonian
Genres: Newspapers & Magazines, Science & Technology
Publisher's Summary:
Around 6:30 p.m. on February 17, 1864, eight men crammed into the Confederate submarineH. L. Hunley, a self-propelled metal tube attached to a bomb, and slipped quietly into the freezing black water off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. The crew hand-cranked the sub more than six kilometers toward its targetthe Union blockader USSHousatonicand surfaced like a leviathan for the charge. By 9:00 p.m., it was over: TheHunleyhad thrust its spar-mounted torpedo into theHousatonics hull and within seconds, 60 kilograms of black powder had caved in the ship.
"One Scientist May Have Finally Figured Out the Mystery of Why a Civil War Submarine Sank" is from smithsonianmag.com, published on August 23, 2017.