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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 191,080 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). David Bushnell is the 267th most popular inventor (up from 268th in 2019), the 4,414th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,641st in 2019) and the 65th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, David Bushnell ranks 267 out of 354. Before him are Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, James Nasmyth, Michael S. Hart, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Walter Clopton Wingfield, and Robert Metcalfe. After him are Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Peter Madsen, Joseph Aspdin, Lester Allan Pelton, Adolf Martens, and Alexander P. de Seversky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1742, David Bushnell ranks 19. Before him are Ignaz von Born, Charlotte von Stein, Pōmare I, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, and Johan Herman Wessel. After him are Anders Jahan Retzius, Félix de Azara, Nathanael Greene, Joseph Brant, and James Wilson. Among people deceased in 1824, David Bushnell ranks 27. Before him are Charles Maturin, Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Maria Anna of Savoy, Duchess of Chablais, Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Ercole Consalvi, and Agustín de Betancourt. After him are Fyodor Alekseyev, Hans Nielsen Hauge, François Levaillant, Lachlan Macquarie, Blasius Merrem, and Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Bushnell ranks 4,414 out of 18,182. Before him are Jim Gray (1944), George C. Homans (1910), W. S. Van Dyke (1889), Charles Koch (1935), Raymond Smith Dugan (1878), and Elihu Yale (1649). After him are Paul Chambers (1935), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), Todd Rundgren (1948), Charles Fort (1874), David Zucker (1947), and Juanita Moore (1914).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, David Bushnell ranks 65. Before him are Frank Zamboni (1901), Walter Hunt (1796), Eunice Newton Foote (1819), Cyrus McCormick (1809), Michael S. Hart (1947), and Robert Metcalfe (1946). After him are Lester Allan Pelton (1829), L. L. Langstroth (1810), Edward Lawry Norton (1898), Jack Northrop (1895), Wilson Greatbatch (1919), and Ralph Hartley (1888).

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