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Facts

Born 1742 • Connecticut
Died 1824 (aged 82) • Georgia
Inventions “Turtle”
Role In American Revolution

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Bushnell's submarine torpedo boat
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Watch a silent short of Thomas Edison, who invented the phonograph and incandescent electric light
Thomas Edison
American inventor
Portrait of Alexander Graham Bell with white hair and beard, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking directly at the camera.
Alexander Graham Bell
British-American inventor
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton
American inventor
Philo Farnsworth
Philo Farnsworth
American inventor
Page, Robert Morris
Robert Morris Page
American physicist
John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.
John Ericsson
Swedish-born American naval engineer and inventor
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John Philip Holland
American inventor
Lake, Simon
Simon Lake
American inventor
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Joseph Slepian
American electrical engineer and mathematician
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Thomas Godfrey
British-American colonial artisan, inventor, and mathematician
Blanchard, Thomas
Thomas Blanchard
American inventor
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Lyman Reed Blake
American inventor
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Joseph Jenks
British-American inventor
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Nathan Read
American engineer and inventor
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Frank Stephen Baldwin
American inventor
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Elisha King Root
American inventor, engineer, and manufacturer
Corliss steam engine
George Henry Corliss
American inventor
Willis Carrier
Willis Carrier
American inventor
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Samuel Morey
American inventor
Pratt, Francis Ashbury
Francis Ashbury Pratt
American inventor

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