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by gale and others, doolittle was well known as an "ingenious mechanic" (i.e. an engineer), engraver, and metalworker. [ ] he had both designed and manufactured complicated brass-wheel hall-clocks, a mahogany printing-press in (the first made in america, after doolittle successfully duplicated the iron
parts. in making the hull, bushnell enlisted the services of several skilled artisans, including his brother the farmer ezra bushnell and ship's carpenter phineas pratt, both, like david bushnell, from saybrook. [ ] the hull was "constructed of oak, somewhat like a barrel and bound by heavy wrought-iron...
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