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Monturiol’s Dream - Reviewed by David Skea - Eclectica Magazine v8n1 |
 | | And it was invented and built by an idealist with no formal engineering training who had spent the first 37 years of his life publishing left wing journals (always banned by the authorities) or organising a radical political party, most of whose members were jailed or exiled. |
| | Monturiol made it clear in his first writings on the subject that he imagined a craft that would take humankind to the very bottom of the ocean (at least eventually) and would propel itself in all directions, without any link to the land or surface, remaining underwater indefinitely. |
| | In his lifetime, Monturiol invented many things: a cigarette rolling machine, a method of preserving meat for export, a cheap food for rabbits being raised for meat and a mechanism for copying letters as they were written, are just a few mentioned in the book. |
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