Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/141 - The Six Submarines/Historical Note

Historical Note on Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $141$ - The Six Submarines

Martin Gardner, in his $1968$ repackaging 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems, references his own article in his $1959$ collection The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions in which the question is answered in Seven Touching Cylinders, with $7$ appropriately-dimensioned cylinders.

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• 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Answers: $312$. The Six Submarines