Eli ([personal profile] eub) wrote2003-12-01 11:47 pm

Richard Ellis, Deep Atlantic, p. 56

Wilhelm Bauer's Seeteufel ("sea-devil"), a 52-foot-long, treadmill-powered submarine boat. In this cutaway view, we can see the little orchestra that is said to have played the Russian national anthem -- underwater -- at the 1856 coronation of Tsar Alexander II in Kronstadt Harbor.

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