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So much for not posting more for a few days...

Under Water in a Diving Torpedo Boat by Franklin Matthews is an 1899 account of the Holland submarine and a brief glimpse of French experiments. As always error-spotting would be appreciated.

http://www.forgottenfutures.com/library/sub/sub.htm

I think that the pyramid from this article is going to become the Imperial Tombs for Forgotten Futures XII - started shortly after the Empire conquered most of the world in the early 20th century, and completed by Mad Empress Margaret in the 1980s; hundreds of workmen died during its construction, and most of the architects and engineers in charge of the project were killed in a freak transmutation accident just as they were celebrating its completion. Rumoured to be haunted, to conceal vast treasures, etc. etc....