Cornelis Drebbel

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Dutch inventor and submarine pioneer

ScientistsLived 1572 to 1633 · aged 61

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Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel was a Dutch engineer and inventor. He was the builder of the first operational submarine in 1620 and an innovator who contributed to the development of measurement and control systems, optics and chemistry.

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"Perpetuum mobile" clock by Drebbel

First navigable submarine

Reconstruction of the Drebbel, Richmond upon Thames. In 2002, the British boatbuilder Mark Edwards built a wooden submarine based on the original version by Drebbel. It was shown in the BBC TV programme Building the Impossible in 2002.

Scientists born in the 1570s 6

Jan Baptist van Helmont56.3

Christoph Scheiner51.9

Frederick de Houtman50.8

Willem Blaeu50.2

Robert Dudley49.1

Adriaan Metius48.7

Cornelis Drebbel

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Scientists born in the 1570s 6

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