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USS Nautilus
Bushnell's submarine torpedo boat
USS Seawolf
Nuclear submarine
USS Albacore
U-218
USS Nautilus
submarine
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Key People

Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton
American inventor
Medal commemorating Sebastian Wilhelm Valentin Bauer.
Sebastian Wilhelm Valentin Bauer
German inventor
Lake, Simon
Simon Lake
American inventor
Bushnell's submarine torpedo boat
David Bushnell
American inventor
Weddigen
Otto Weddigen
German naval officer
Cornelis Drebbel
Dutch inventor
John Philip Holland
American inventor
Bacon, Francis Thomas
Francis Thomas Bacon
British engineer

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