Birth of John Holland, Inventor of the Submarine 1841

#OnThisDay 1841 John Holland was born in Liscannor, Clare. Holland, a maths teacher, designed & invented the modern submarine. Both the US Navy & the Royal Navy’s first commissioned submarines were named in his honour.

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