Aircraft and Submarines

by Willis J. Abbot

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Germany, 61, 62, 69, 72, 73, 75, 79, 80, 81, 97, 104, 105, 106, 108, 121, 133, 142, 146-149, 157, 171, 183-185, 193, 198, 200, 210, 235, 280, 297, 310, 341, 361, 364

Ghent, 165

Gibbons, Floyd P., 347-351

Giffard, dirigible, 37, 38, 41, 43

Grange, de la, Lieutenant, 196, 199

Great Britain, 57, 58, 105, 106, 120, 142, 143, 157, 191, 192, 202, 203, 204, 207, 310, 341, 343

Great War, 3, 12, 72, 80, 98, 103, 159

Greece, submarine strength of, 307

Grey, C. G., quoted, 189

Gross, dirigible, 77, 78

Guynemer, Captain Georges, 211, 212, 214

Gyroscope compass, 312

H

Hartlepool, 208

Harvard University, 175, 176

Harwich, 208

Heligoland, 155-157, 202, 333

Hogue, 235, 236

Holland, 150, 235; submarine strength of, 306, 307

Holland, John P., 241, 274-277, 294; submarine, 294-296, 298, 301, 302, 304, 306, 313

Holland Torpedo Boat Company, 272, 277, 298

Hotchkiss, 147

Housatonic, U. S. S., 259, 260

Hydro-airplane, 160, 189, 190, 206, 225

Hydroplane, 280, 308

I

Icarus, 14

Immelman, Captain, 119, 212-214

Instruction, in aviation, 111-118; of American aviators, 11

Ironsides, 256, 257, 295

Italy, 81, 343; submarine strength of, 306

Italian submarines, 360

J

Japan, submarine strength of, 306, 307

Japanese submarines, 352

Joffre, General, 4, 196

Jutland, battle of, 12, 381

K

Kaiser, 78. Also see Emperor of Germany

Kiel, 9, 108, 155-157, 183, 195, 202, 230, 253, 314, 367

Kipling, Rudyard, 80, 166, 226, 227, 346

Kitchener, Lord, 58

Kitty-Hawk, 89, 94

Kluck, General von, 3, 4

König, Captain Paul, 367-377

Krebs, 39

L

Lafayette Escadrille, 121, 175, 176, 216

Lake Constance, 62, 148

Lake, Simon, 278-295, 356, 364, 378-380; submarine, 294-296, 302, 304, 306, 317

Lana, Francisco, 17

Lancaster, F. W., 144

Langley, Professor Samuel, 82, 83, 84, 183

La Patrie, 55

La République, 55

Latham, 95

Laurenti, Major, 300; submarine, 302, 306

Lebaudy Brothers, 54; airplane, 56, 78

Le Bris, 86-88

Lee, Ezra, 249, 250

Lewis gun, 217

Liberty motor, 222, 226; plane, 127

Liège, 159

Lilienthal, Gustav, 84

Lilienthal, Otto, 84-86, 90

Lilienthals, 88

Lille, 185

London, 9, 134, 142, 156, 208, 209, 230

Lufbery, Captain Raoul, 121, 180

Lunardi, aeronaut, 30

Lusitania, 193, 210, 263, 343

M

McConnell, Sergeant James R., 160

Marne, battle of, 5, 183, 196

Maxim, Sir Hiram, 83

Merrimac, 12

Meuse river, 4, 161

Monitor, 12

Mons, battle of, 3, 5

Montgolfier Brothers, Jos. & Jacques, 20, 22; balloon, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 30

Moranes, 186

N

Namur, 4

Napoleon, 99, 108, 252

Naval Committee, House of Representatives, 271, 272

Navy Department of U. S., 188, 189, 278, 298, 300, 301

Navy Department, Civil War, 256, 257

Navy, Secretary of, 187, 194, 222

Needham, Henry Beach, 166

Nieuport, airplane, 140, 163, 186; town of, 150, 151, 154

Nordenfeldt, Swedish inventor, 263, 264, 275

North Sea, 6, 76, 144, 149, 154, 156, 157, 187, 188, 190, 235, 236, 305

Norway, submarine strength of, 306, 307

Noyes, Alfred, quoted, 335-340

O

Ostend, 9, 150, 151, 191, 194, 200

P

Paris, 3, 23-25, 28, 48, 50-53, 61, 110

Parseval, dirigible, 77, 78

Parseval-Siegfeld, 141

Pau, 110

Père Galien, 17

Periscopes, 296, 305, 310, 311, 326-328, 333, 366

Petersburg, 6

Pilcher, Percy S., 84, 86, 88

Pitney, Fred B., quoted, 323-328

Porter, Admiral David, 259

Prince, Norman, 176, 180, 216-221

R

Rees, Major L. W. B., 174

Renard, 38, 42, 43

Richmond, 6

Roberts Brothers' balloon, 34, 35

Rockwell, Kiffen, 176-179, 214

Royal Aërial Factory, 105

Rozier, Pilatre de, 27, 29; death of, 30

Rumsey, Adjt., quoted, 217-220

Russia, 81, 106, 203, 254; submarine strength of, 306, 307

Russian ships sunk in Baltic, 157; submarine sunk by bombs, 190

S

Santos-Dumont, 34; quoted, 38, 39-47, 48-50, 51-54, 59, 60, 62, 63, 88, 95

Scarborough, 208

Schutte-Lanz, dirigible, 77, 79

Schwartz, David, 63

Scott, Lieutenant, 133

Seaplanes, 105, 106, 108, 143, 149, 150, 154, 188, 191, 225, 236

Severo Pax, 77

Sikorsky, airplanes, 203

Sincay, Lieutenant de, 191

Sopwith, biplane, 126, 219

"S. P. A. D.," 217

Spain, 81; submarine strength of, 306