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    BUSHNELL'S TURTLES RESOURCES

    BACK TO BUSHNELL'S TURTLE

    THEMES: Revolutionary War, Inventions

    BOOKS

    Lincoln P. Paine, Warships of the World to 1900 (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000).

     

     

    George C. Daughan, If by Sea: The Forging of the American Navy - From the Revolution to the War (Philadelphia: Basic Books, 2008).

     

     

     

    ONLINE RESOURCES

    Revolutionary War Almanac

     

    Development of the Submarine

     

    George Pararas-Carayannis, “Turtle: A Revolutionary Submarine,” Sea Frontiers, 22/4 (July-August, 1976), 234. EXCERPTS

     

    ConnecticutHistory.org

     

    University of Houston radio program transcript. 

    Links the Turtle to earlier schematics.

    Audio file, time: 3min 51sec.

     

    Reconstruction of the Turtle

     

    Benjamin Franklin Inventions

     

    Benjamin Franklin for Kids

     

     

    GRAPHICS and TIMELINES

     

    Source page for Turtle images, with IDs

     

     

    Timelines

     

    Submarine Development

     

     

    18th Century Inventions

     

     

    Industrial Revolution Inventions

    VIDEO

    Bushnell's Turtle

    Military History Channel

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