Campbell's Engineer in Gray

[JohnDLittlefield]

Does anyone have quick access the copy of this book (Campbell 2005, Engineer in Gray). I need thepage number and caption for an illustration. The image is of either the fuse design of Francis Lee or Hermann von Jacobi... I forget who Campbell credits the design to.
Thank you in advance for anyone that may be able to help.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

I might have it. I remember I'd intended to get it... but I don't remember right off hand if I bought it or not (if I have, it's still in the "to-read" pile). I'll look when I get back from the office.

 

[JohnDLittlefield]

I might have it. I remember I'd intended to get it... but I don't remember right off hand if I bought it or not (if I have, it's still in the "to-read" pile). I'll look when I get back from the office.

Great, thanks!. I actually have two copies.... both back in Texas!

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

I try to read everything by Tom Campbell. Some of his stuff is better than others, but it's always guaranteed to be a good read.

 

[JohnDLittlefield]

Two of his books have been pretty helpful to me. Engineer in Gray and Hunters of the Night (of which I also have two copies- only one of which is in Texas LOL)

 

[Kazziga]

There is no such illustration in "Engineer in Gray".

 

[JohnDLittlefield]

There is no such illustration in "Engineer in Gray".

Ah, really? I have in my notes that there is a cross-section diagram of the chemical fuse- same illustration that appears in Schiller 2011 (Gabriel Rains previously unpublished manuscript). Schiller attributes the diagram to Lee, but I wrote that Campbell correctly attributed it to Jacobi.

OK, thanks for checking, Kaz. BTW, you have a small package on the way and another when I get a chance to get out of the office properly.

 

[JohnDLittlefield]

should look like this...

 

[Kazziga]

I double-checked, neither "Engineer in Gray" nor "Hunter of the Night" include detailed drawings of any chemical fuses (there is a cross-section of a torpedo with a chemical fuse in the latter, but it's not really detailed).
I have a feeling that I've seen this drawing somewhere. Maybe in M. F. Perry's "Infernal Machines" or M. K. Ragan's "Union And Confederate Submarine Warfare In The Civil War".

 

[JohnDLittlefield]

Not in Perry 1965 or Ragan 1999/2002 or Campbell 2000 or Schafer 1996. Not sure it came from now!

 

[JohnDLittlefield]

Well, at least one place it was published is written right on the image... left side (Barnes, Submarine Warfare) 1869, I think. Checking there now.

EDIT: Plate V appears after p. 68- exact illustration. I wonder why I wrote it was from Campbell 2005 ????? I am obviously losing my mind!!!

 

[JohnDLittlefield]

A separate note of mine specifically cites p. 65 of Campbell 2005 talking about von Jacobi's fuse and says there is an illustration. Apparently I had too much Turkish Delite that day.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Thanks Kaz!