During the American Revolution, on a September evening in 1776, a submarine invented by Connecticut native David Bushnell attempted to sink the British flagship HMS Eagle. Its mission was unsuccessful ...

After hearing of a popular Iowa City restaurant named after her ancestor’s invention, a DI Arts reporter set out to cook and review three original recipes from the restaurant’s cookbook. For her ...

When I moved to Iowa City in 2016, I had no idea that a popular restaurant named after my Revolutionary War era ancestor, David Bushnell, had existed in the Pedestrian Mall from 1976 to 1994. In order ...

Its nickname was the “Turtle”. During the American Revolution, an American inventor developed an underwater vessel that could destroy British ships by attaching a bomb to the hull of a ship. These are ...

The musket fire that rang out and broke the tension at Lexington on April 19, 1775, became the "shot heard round the world" and kicked off a revolution — The American Revolution. The famous war saw 13 ...

At Kevin’s request this week I focus on the Turtle, the first American submarine. Its 1776, with the American Revolution in full swing and on September 7 the world’s first submarine attack occurs. The ...

David Bushnell built a submarine in 1776 and attempted to use it to sink the British flagship HMS Eagle. More than two centuries later students at Old Saybrook High School created a working replica of ...

ESSEX >> The Connecticut River Museum will bring past and present together for a program exploring the local heritage of submarine design; from David Bushnell’s American Revolution submarine, Turtle, ...