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David Bushnell (August 30, – or ), of Westbrook, Connecticut, was an American inventor, a patriot, a teacher, and a medical doctor.

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David Bushnell ( – ), while a patriot student at Yale University, imagined a submersible craft capable of underwater attack upon enemy shipping.

David Bushnell built a submarine in and attempted to use it to sink the British flagship HMS Eagle.