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On a summer night in 1776, an American soldier named Ezra Lee steered a tiny wooden submarine…

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Creativity thrives in unexpected places. Deep in the Norwell woods, at the end of a mile-long, rutted dirt road…

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At midnight, September 7, 1776, a strange craft on a deadly mission made its way down the Hudson River…

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In the pale, early light of an overcast morning, men and horses struggle to lower a 6,000-pound wooden ship into Snug Harbor…

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More than 200 years have passed since America's first submarine, the Turtle, ans sailed in a naval battle, but its design continues to fascinate…

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Brought down to Annapolis, the new Turtle was placed in a large tow tank at the Academy's Hydromecahnics Lab…

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The task was to recreate the Turtle, a one-man wooden submarine built in 1776 to carry a bomb and blow up a British warship…

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