John Philip Holland (1840-1914) was an Irish American inventor who succeeded in developing the submarine sufficiently to win it a place in the navies of the world.John P. Holland was born in County Cl...
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Holland was born and raised in Ireland. Although employed as a schoolteacher, he read about early experiments with submarines carried out by William Bourne (d.1853), Cornelius Drebbel, and David Bushn...
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John Philip Holland
John Philip Holland