Horace Lawson Hunley

Horace Lawson Hunley (1823 to 1863) was a Confederate marine engineer during the American Civil War. He developed early hand-powered submarines, the most famous of which was posthumously named for him, H. L. Hunley. He belongs in a record of how people and goods moved because his work explored travel beneath the surface, an early experiment in propelling a vessel under water by human effort. The source lead is brief and does not say where or when the boats were built or tested, so this entry keeps to what the lead states about his role and his boats and adds no further detail.