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          A biography of the eithteenth-century Connecticut farmer who invented the submarine first used in naval warfare during the American Revolution....

          This true story of the American Revolution tells how a secretive Yankee genius, David Bushnell, set his sights on the Royal Navy and built and deployed the.

        1. This true story of the American Revolution tells how a secretive Yankee genius, David Bushnell, set his sights on the Royal Navy and built and deployed the.
        2. A biography of the eithteenth-century Connecticut farmer who invented the submarine first used in naval warfare during the American.
        3. A biography of the eithteenth-century Connecticut farmer who invented the submarine first used in naval warfare during the American Revolution.
        4. A biography of the eighteenth-century Connecticut farmer who invented the submarine first used in naval warfare during the American Revolution.
        5. Named Turtle because its inventor, David Bushnell, believed the craft resembled “two upper tortoise shells of equal size, joined together,” it.

          6. David Bushnell

          American inventor who built the "Turtle" submersible (1740–1824/1826)

          For the historian, see David Bushnell (historian). For the entrepreneur, see David P. Bushnell.

          David Bushnell

          Born(1740-08-30)August 30, 1740

          Westbrook, Connecticut

          Died1824/1826

          Warrenton

          NationalityAmerican
          OccupationInventor
          Known forBuilding "Turtle" submersible

          David Bushnell (August 30, 1740 – 1824 or 1826), of Westbrook, Connecticut, was an American inventor, a patriot, a teacher, and a medical doctor.

          Bushnell invented the first submarine to be used in battle, Turtle, as well as a floating mine triggered by contact. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary War.

          Early life

          David Bushnell was born in a secluded part of Saybrook, Connecticut on 30 August 1740 and baptized in 1753 into a farming family in what is now Westbrook, Connecticut where his parents Nehemiah Bushnell and Sarah (Susan) Ingham Bushnell owned a farm.[1] He