Ahhhhhhh yes. I remember when Neal annoyed the Pharoah by trying to make a submarine shaped pyramid.
When that didn't work,he tried to sell the Minoans the idea of building a submarine. They gave him the cash to build one and sent Neal to a shipyard on Thera. Unfortunately,Neal attempted to build a Nuclear Sub, But since he tried to build one a few thousand years too early,it kinda went boom. (And scientists STILL think that was a volcanic eruption).
After THAT debacle,Neal managed to con the Greeks into building a submarine. His first attempt sank. His second attempt caught fire and sank. His third attempt exploded,caught fire and sank. Finally,Neal decided that trying to build a sub wasn't such a great idea after all. (An interesting fact is that the Hunley was actually based on a Neal Stevens design that Professor Hunley found on a Hierogliphic in the Great Pyramid in Egypt.).
Eventually,Neal hit on the idea of having a Submarine web site,but since papyrus wasn't a very effective way to do it,he chose to wait till computers were invented.
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