Re: Cheap Thrills Dept., Civil War submarine section

["Allan Gaines" <exfloridians@ecsu.campuscwix.net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael B Holt <michaelbholt@juno.com>
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Date: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 04:51 PM
Subject: Cheap Thrills Dept., Civil War submarine section


>I just got the book "CSS H. L. Hunley."   It has the entire history of
>the boat,
>and it includes a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff I never imagined.
>A note in here is that an "Electro-Magnet motor" was considered for the
>boat.   They went so far as to try to build the motor, without success.



    Was this an 'electric motor'?  What would the power source have
been?  Did they have batteries powerful enough back then?