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Biography of David Bushnell
Name: David Bushnell
Birth Date: 1742
Death Date: 1824
Place of Birth: Saybrook, Conecticut, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: inventor
David Bushnell
David Bushnell (1742-1824) built the first man-propelled submarine boat with a wooden magazine containing gunpowder and a clock mechanism for igniting it at any particular time. Although he was not successful in his attempts to destroy British ships during the American Revolution, he is recognized as the father of the modern submarine.David Bushnell was a descendant of Francis Bushnell, an Englishman who joined the New Haven Colony in 1639 and subsequently helped to found Guilford, Connecticut. David was born on his father's farm in Saybrook, Connecticut. The home was located in an extremely secluded portion of the township and here young Bushnell grew up, helping his father with the farm duties, devoting his leisure moments to reading, and shunning all society. When he was twenty-seven his father died, and, as his mother had died some years before, the farm descended to David and his brother. David immediately sold his inheritance, moved …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…years it is believed that he went to France. In 1795, however, he appeared in Columbia County, Georgia, as a schoolteacher, under the name of Dr. Bush. He lived with a fellow soldier, Abraham Baldwin who was the only person who knew his real identity. Through him Bushnell became head of a private school. Several years later he settled in Warrenton, Georgia, and began the practice of medicine which he continued until his death in 1824, at the age of eighty-four. As far as is known he never married. Further Reading Abbot, Lieut.-Col. Henry L., Beginning of Modern Submarine Warfare, 1775.Dexter, F. B., Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, vol. III, 1903.Howe, Henry, Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics, 1844.White, George, Historical Collections. of Georgia, 3rd ed., 1855, pp. 406-09.American Journal of Science, April 1820.Connecticut Historical Society Collections, vol. II, 1870.Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. IV, 1799, No. 37.
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