https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/July-21-TodayinCTHist.mp3 While Connecticut has been home to an outsized share of American innovators and creative geniuses, few of them have had as long-lasting an impact as David Bushnell, inventor of the Turtle — the world’s first combat submarine. Born in Saybrook in 1740, Bushnell decided at age 30 to sell his share of the family farm and attend Yale College, where (as a notably olde…
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