Simon Lake
American inventor (1866–1945)
Simon Lake (September 4, 1866 – June 23, 1945) was a Quaker American mechanical engineer and naval architect who obtained over two hundred patents for advances in naval design and competed with John Philip Holland to build the first submarines for the United States Navy.2
From Wikipedia’s article on Simon Lake (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born Sep 4, 1866, died Jun 23, 1945.1
Companies
- Lake Torpedo Boat CompanyFounder8
Career
Occupation: design engineer, inventor, engineer, submariner.4
- Date not recordedFounded Lake Torpedo Boat Company3
Personal life
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- 1WikidataSimon Lake on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaSimon Lake on Wikipedia
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- 9Wikimedia CommonsSimon Lake photo by Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain