Chicago Tribune: Biblioracle: Joe Dunthorne explores his family’s history in ‘Children of Radium’
It seems like every family has a bit of ancestral folklore, and Joe Dunthorne’s is better than most, a tale of his great-grandfather Siegfried spiriting his family away from Nazi Germany in 1935, ...
In “Children of Radium,” Joe Dunthorne explores the absurdity of family histories and his own clan’s complicated past. By Emma Brockes Emma Brockes is the author of “She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s ...
The first American submarine was designed before the Revolutionary War by David Bushnell, a young inventor from Connecticut. He designed and built a one-man submersible that he called Turtle. Bushnell's Turtle featured a hand-cranked screw-like paddle that moved the boat forward and back underwater, air pipes that brought fresh air into the boat, ballast tanks that took on water to dive and ...
Submarines have a long history in the United States, beginning with Turtle, during the American Revolution. The world’s first combat submarine, invented by David Bushnell, was devised as a means of breaking the British blockade of Boston Harbor but was unsuccessful on multiple attempts. The U.S. Navy officially joined the undersea world when it purchased USS Holland (SS-1) on 11 April 1900 ...
The first American submarine was designed before the Revolutionary War by David Bushnell, a young inventor from Connecticut. He designed and built a one-man submersible vessel that he called Turtle. Bushnell's Turtle featured a hand-cranked screw-like oar that moved the boat forward and back underwater, air pipes that brought fresh air into the boat, ballast tanks that took on water to dive ...