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David Bushnell

1742 - 1824

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David Bushnell (August 30, 1740 – 1824 or 1826), of Westbrook, Connecticut, was an American inventor, a patriot, a teacher, and a medical doctor. Bushnell invented the first submarine to be used in battle, Turtle, as well as a floating mine triggered by contact. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Bushnell has received more than 210,021 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). David Bushnell is the 307th most popular inventor (down from 267th in 2019), the 5,911th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,402nd in 2019) and the 74th most popular American Inventor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, David Bushnell ranks 307 out of 426. Before him are Wilhelm Bauer, Max Valier, André Blondel, Marion Donovan, Alexander Bain, and Paul von Jankó. After him are Dan Bricklin, Ken Olsen, Jack Northrop, Wilson Greatbatch, Joseph Engelberger, and Roland Moreno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1742, David Bushnell ranks 23. Before him are Nathanael Greene, Pōmare I, Johan Herman Wessel, Anders Jahan Retzius, Joseph Brant, and Félix de Azara. After him are James Wilson, Alexander Ablesimov, William Hooper, and Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville. Among people deceased in 1824, David Bushnell ranks 31. Before him are Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, Maria Anna of Savoy, Duchess of Chablais, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Agustín de Betancourt, Blasius Merrem, and Fyodor Alekseyev. After him are Hans Nielsen Hauge, André Thouin, François Levaillant, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, Lachlan Macquarie, and Caesar Augustus Rodney.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Bushnell ranks 5,911 out of 20,380. Before him are Chloë Sevigny (1974), Stephen Gyllenhaal (1949), Gram Parsons (1946), Brian Herbert (1947), Rosalyn Tureck (1914), and Robert Pine (1941). After him are Phyllis Smith (1951), Robert Taylor (1932), Max O. Lorenz (1876), Wes Bentley (1978), John Lee Hancock (1956), and Al Smith (1873).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, David Bushnell ranks 74. Before him are Ralph Hartley (1888), George Devol (1912), Jacob Perkins (1766), Lester Allan Pelton (1829), Henry M. Leland (1843), and Marion Donovan (1917). After him are Dan Bricklin (1951), Ken Olsen (1926), Jack Northrop (1895), Wilson Greatbatch (1919), Joseph Engelberger (1925), and Tabitha Babbitt (1779).

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