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Drebbel Submarine
The Timber Submarine was designed and built for "Building the Impossible", a series of television programmes commissioned jointly by the BBC and the Discovery Channel. Each programme illustrates the challenges on the journey of innovative, exploratory engineering.
The task of this program was to emulate the work of Dutch inventor Cornelius Drebbel for King James I in the early 1620's. It is reported that Drebbel had constructed an operational submarine, which had sailed in the Thames , although no drawings exist of his work.
Expedition researched the available technologies of the time and designed a vessel, which could be constructed using, as far as practicable, authentic 17th century boat building technologies, methods and materials.
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