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

For the historian, see David Bushnell (historian).

American inventor David Bushnell's Revolutionary War submarine Turtle was a major breakthrough in naval warfare.

David Bushnell sat on the bank of the Connecticut River.

He invented the first working weaponized submarine and was the father of naval mine warfare.

Named Turtle because its inventor, David Bushnell, believed the craft resembled “two upper tortoise shells of equal size, joined together,” it.

David Bushnell was born in in Saybrook, CT and in after his father's death used his inheritance to go to Yale.

For the entrepreneur, see David P. Bushnell.

David Bushnell
Born	()August 30, Westbrook, Connecticut
Died	/ Warrenton
Nationality	American
Occupation	Inventor
Known&#;for	Building "Turtle" submersible

David Bushnell (August 30, – or ), 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 and baptized in 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 was the first of five children born.

Following the death of