Current status: Not on display This American flag accompanied Navy submersible Trieste II (DSV 1) on many of its missions. Trieste II (DSV 1) performed undersea research, search, and recovery operations for the Navy from 1965 to 1984. With an operating depth of 20,000...
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Torpedo Dynamo-Electric Machines
Current status: Not on display How do submarines and ships fire weapons? Today they use sophisticated fire control equipment. In the late nineteenth century, they used a dynamo-electric machine. The Farmer’s torpedo dynamo-electric machine was a late-nineteenth...
Sealab II: Remembering the “Tilton’ Hilton” 50 Years Later
Living underwater might seem like the stuff of a Jules Verne story or a popular TV cartoon. But fifty years ago, 28 Navy aquanauts did just that, as part of the Navy’s groundbreaking Sealab II project. The undersea equivalent of the 1960s space race, the Navy’s three...