# David Bushnell
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david bushnell (August 30, 1740 – 1824 or 1826), of Westbrook, Connecticut, was an American inventor, a patriot, one of the first American combat engineers, a teacher, and a medical doctor.
Bushnell invented the first submarine to be used in battle, as well as a floating mine triggered by contact. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary War.
Episode 104 Submarine Warfare
The Continental Army attempts to blow up the HMS Eagle in New York Harbor in September 1776. Using the work of David Bushnell and a small team, attempts to attach an underwater mine after reaching the ship using a one man submarine. The explosive fails to attach and the mission is a failure.
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1385: Bushnell’s Submarine
Episode: 1385 How David Bushnell built his submarine for the Colonial Army. Today, a new look at a Colonial technology.
Episode 1: The Hand Behind Unmanned – America’s Quest for Autonomous War
What are unmanned weapons and where did America’s quest for autonomy begin? The answer takes us back to the birthplace of the country and David Bushnell’s famed kegs of floating gunpowder then to the Civil War when, first Confederate and then Union generals experimented with land and naval mines a…
The Turtle
Special guests Lena and Graham from Patrol reports, sit in today to bring you the story of the Turtle...
In September of 1776, New York Harbor was the stage for one of the most unusual moments in the American Revolution. The British fleet, anchored in force and confident of its dominance, faced a …
Submarines: How a Weapon Built for Peace Nearly Ended Civilization (Ep. 101)
Three hundred feet beneath the Caribbean Sea, three Soviet naval officers were about to decide whether human civilization would survive the next ten minutes.October 1962. Submarine B-59 had become a steel coffin. Temperature past 100 degrees. Carbon dioxide approaching toxic levels. American destro…
The Turtle: Revolutionary Submarine
How old do you think submarines are? 50 years old? 100 years old? What if we told you they date back all the way to the American Revolution? While George Washington led his army into battle, the inventor David Bushnell was building a secret weapon. It was a tiny, round ship that could dive underwat…
Testing A Turtle–July 21, 1776
David Bushnell came up with the idea for the Turtle submersible only days after Lexington and Concord. He’d been working on several different experiments he’d conducted at Yale College, and found a way to integrate them into a single device to use against the British.
The Turtle was revol…
Mississippi — River Aliens & Bigfoot
On the night of October 11, 1973, two shipyard workers drove into the Jackson County Sheriff's Office in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and told a story that neither of them expected anybody to believe. Charles Hickson spelled his name into a tape recorder and said that even if they laughed him out of th…
The One Man Submarine
America’s first attempt at submarine warfare set sail - or rather, sank - off the coast of New York on 7th September, 1776.
‘The Turtle’ was the brainchild of David Bushnell, a former Yale student who built a wooden, barrel-shaped craft secretly equipped to drill a hole in a British warship, and …
Submarines: Genesis to WW1
Josh and Dan discuss the history of submarines: David Bushnell's extraordinary "Turtle", Fulton's experiments in Europe, the Plunger Class, and the first ocean-going subs in World War One.
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