‘I’m Guybrush Threepwood, I want to be a pirate!’
You fight like a dairy farmer!
How appropriate, hey look a three headed monkey
Americans so afraid of cycling even back then!
Man, ever seen the plans for the H L Hunley? Confederates seriously tried to go to war with a submarine that relied on a long row of men just madly cranking away at their shaft…
Ridiculous.
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It worked and It only killed all the crew like 3 times though right?
It sank on a training voyage and killed its crew, then got raised back up and put back into service, then it went out on another training voyage where it sank killing its crew and also its creator, then was put back into service where it blew up a US navy ship, sank and killed it’s crew.
Thing was a marvel, not so much of engineering but of pig-headed determination in the face of every possible sign from the universe telling you to stop.
I know this is a followup almost twelve hours later, but I just noticed this on the reproduction they have on the wikipedia page:
It was (partially) treadle powered!
Much better to hand crank a direct drive screw through the water
It’s not quite that bad, as taken from the wikipedia article at least it was a proper screw propeller and not the… whatever the hell those things are in the OP image. But still pretty damn silly.
This 19th-century diagram shows the side views of Turtle. It incorrectly depicts the propeller as a screw blade; it was actually a paddle propeller blade, as seen in the replica shown above and reported by Sergeant Lee.
Also, I believe the turtle predates the development of the safety bicycle - possibly it predates even the concept of pedal powered drives like we have in the modern day. This was a hundred years before the penny-farthing when the turtle was developed, after all.
Buttplug of the sea!
So that thing could move at what… 0.1 miles per hour?
And not even nautical miles!
