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"Holland had no time to turn his thought to the submarine soon after his arrival in Boston in November, 1873, for he slipped on an icy city street, suffered a broken leg and a slight brain concussion in the mishap, and was confined to his rooms. "I had a search made through my effects for my former solution to the problem." He told the Washington Star in 1900, "and fortunately the friend that I had entrusted with the duty found them. When I was on the point of opening the envelope containing them, it occurred to me it would be better to begin at the beginning of the subject and study it over again from the start without looking at what I had done before."1 Holland was surprised and delighted to find that his conception of his principles involved had not changed substantially from his earlier understanding. He concluded that he must therefore be correct in his approach to the solution of the basic problems in submarine navigation."
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