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TITLE:  Bushnell's American turtle

CALL NUMBER:  Illus. in UG1 .U47 no. 3 [General Collections]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-110384 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Print shows three views of the "Turtle", a one-man submarine designed and built by David Bushnell to attach bombs to British warships during the American revolutionary war.

MEDIUM:  1 print : engraving.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [1881]

RELATED NAMES:

Abbot, Henry L.

NOTES:

Title from item.

Illus. in: The beginning of modern submarine warfare, under Captain-Lieutenant David Bushnell, Sappers and miners, Army of the revolution / being a historical compilation arranged by Lieut.-Colonel Henry L. Abbot, Corps of engineers, U.S.A.... [Willets Point, N.Y.H.] : Printed on the Battalion press, Sergt. Carmichael and Pvt. Beck, printers, 1881.

Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 195.

SUBJECTS:

Bushnell, David,--b. 1740.
Submarines--American--1770-1780.
Submarine warfare--American--1770-1780.

FORMAT:

Book illustrations 1880-1890.
Engravings 1880-1890.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c10384 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c10384

CONTROL #:  2006691759



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