biography
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| (?1742–1824)
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| biography:
| Inventor and physician, born in Saybrook, Connecticut, USA. He studied at Yale, then built the first US submarine, Bushnell's turtle, which was tried unsuccessfully against British ships. He was a continental army engineer (1779–83), then spent several years in France, returning to the USA in 1795 to teach and practise medicine in Georgia. |
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