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Early submarines trace to Drebel and Day in the 17th–19th centuries
Uncle Ray recounts early submarine experiments from Drebel’s Dutch craft in a Thames test to English inventor Day’s 50 ton vessel. He notes American Bushnell’s and Fulton’s contributions, the Seine dive, and oxygen via compressed air. Civil War Confederate subs and WWI U boats followed as Britain countered with disguise and sink tactics.
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Drebel
Thames River
Bushre
Bush
France
Seine River
Germany