Description: Simon Lake Submarine Inventor Signed Check Milford Trust Company COA You will receive a signed check from the Milford Trust Company signed by Simon Lake Milford, Connecticut. This item comes from the Simon Lake Collection. Simon Lake (September 4, 1866 June 23, 1945) was a Quaker American mechanical engineer and naval architect who obtained over two hundred patents for advances in naval design and competed with John Philip Holland to build the first submarines for the United States Navy. Born in Pleasantville, New Jersey on September 4, 1866. Lake joined his father's foundry business after attending public schools in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Lake had a strong interest in undersea travel. He built his first submarine, Argonaut Junior, in 1894 in response to an 1893 request from the US Navy for a submarine torpedo boat. In 1898 he followed up with the 36-foot (11m) Argonaut 1, which he sailed from Norfolk, Virginia for one thousand miles (1,600km) to Sandy Hook, New Jersey (which is actually 250 miles (400km) north of Norfolk), arriving in November of 1898. As a result of lessons learned on that journey, he rebuilt it into the 60-foot (18m) Argonaut 2. Neither Argonaut nor Lake's following submarine, Protector, built in 1901, were accepted by the Navy. Protector was the first submarine to have diving planes mounted forward of the conning tower and a flat keel. Look over pictures to see the exact item you will receive and to determine the overall condition of this item. Thanks for looking! Jeff
Price: 95 USD
Location: Liverpool, New York
End Time: 2025-01-25T01:30:14.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5.5 USD
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