The musket fire that rang out and broke the tension at Lexington on April 19, 1775, became the "shot heard round the world" and kicked off a revolution — The American Revolution. The famous war saw 13 ...

Although it was mechanically sound, the Turtle, the first military submarine, was employed as a clandestine weapon during the American Revolutionary War. The Hunley, built during the American Civil ...

HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, Tiger Baby, and Emaho Films have set the world premiere of Taira Malaney’s “Turtle Walker” at Doc NYC. The documentary chronicles the life of Indian sea turtle ...

Late on the night of September 6, 1776, a bizarre object bobbed in the water in New York Harbor off the stern of the HMS Eagle, the flagship of Admiral Richard Howe. The tiny submersible, called the ...

America's first submarine dates to the Revolutionary War. Built by a Connecticut inventor, it sailed into New York Harbor in 1776 with a mission to blow up a British warship. It was ahead of its time ...

In August 1776, with the ink barely dry on the Declaration of Independence, the British Navy filled New York Harbor and the surrounding waters with 400 warships and 23,000 troops, establishing ...

The drive to explore is one of the most potent human urges. Finding out what's just around the next bend has been a prerogative of humanity since the earliest hunters and gatherers. As long as there ...

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