Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun father_of_the_submarine

1 sense of father of the submarine

Sense 1
Bushnell, David Bushnell, Father of the Submarine -- (American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824))
       INSTANCE OF=> inventor, discoverer, artificer -- (someone who is the first to think of or make something)