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Submarine inventor among the revolution era geniuses
The article profiles David Bushnell and his submerged crafts in the American Revolution. It describes Bushnell as a prolific tinkerer who designed the Turtle submarine to attack British ships on New York Harbor, with Ezra Bushnell as engineer and Sergeant Exa Lee commanding trials in Long Island Sound and the Hudson River.
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Associated Press
New York Harbor
David Bushnell
Yale
Bushnell
New
Haven
Lexington
Neer
Concord
Newlin
Saybrook
Necticut
John Osgood
John
Adams
Boston
Connecticut
Howe
Turtle
New York
Eagle
Lee