OT: One of the heads of the US Navy during WW2 strongly believed that the submarine should be made of glass. He worked towards that his entire career, but was

OT: One of the heads of the US Navy during WW2 strongly believed that the submarine should be made of glass. He worked towards that his entire career, but was rebuffed by his peers - for non technical reasons. I don't remember the details, but am thinking of how that would psychologically have change the way we relate to glass, and the research of its properties and uses