[APPENDIX]
REFERENCE LIST AND NOTES
CHAPTER II
THE HIGHWAY OF THE WATERS
(pp. [77]-[79]). The Great Eastern. The quotation is from Ancient and Modern Ships, by Sir George C. V. Holmes, K.C.V.O., London, 1906.
CHAPTER III
SUBMARINE VESSELS
(pp. [95], [98]). The first submarine. As stated in the text the quotation is from a letter written to Thomas Jefferson by David Bushnell, and published in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society in 1789.
(pp. [104]-[105]). A successful diving boat. The quotation is from The Naval History of the Civil War, by Admiral Porter.
CHAPTER IV
THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
(pp. [127], [128]). George Stephenson's locomotive of 1825. The quotation is from The History of the First Locomotive in America, by William H. Brown, New York 1874.