[PSUBS-MAILIST] Old submarine

[Michael Holt via Personal_Submersibles]

On 6/6/2014 11:53 AM, via Personal_Submersibles wrote:
> David,
> I think it must be, but I can't be absolutely sure.  It's hard to 
> imagine that anyone made another one like Doug's version.  It really 
> ought to be in a museum or inside a seafood restaurant looking as it 
> did when Doug built it.
>
When Doug was trying to get rid of it, he let me call some museums. I'm 
in Virginia, so I started here.  I have the Marine Resources Commission, 
the Science Museum of Virginia, and the Mariners' Museum.  The Science 
Museum has /Aluminaut/, and in that display they have a photo Richard 
Reynolds and Simon Lake together as they examine a model of 
/Aluminaut./  The museum in Paterson NJ, holding John Holland's work, 
refused it, as did the Carnagie Science Museum in Pittsburgh (which has 
the Guppy sub /Requin/ on display).  All of them refused to pay for 
shipping the boat, even when they were made aware that the boat itself 
would cost nothing.

Museum officials never like to spend money.  It was obvious to me that 
the "directors" with whom I spoke lack the authority to make any 
significant decisions, but the worst part was that they lacked the 
curiosity to ask questions.


M


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