OBSCURE HISTORIES  HISTORY WITH SCIENCE

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

BUSHNELL'S TURTLES RESOURCES

VIDEO

Bushnell's Turtle

Military History Channel

THEMES: Revolutionary War, Inventions

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