Simon Lake, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Simon Lake

American inventor

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1866

Place of Birth: Pleasantville, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 23-Jun-1945

Profession: engineer, inventor, submariner

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

For the writer Simon Lake, see the pseudonym of Charles L.
Grant.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.