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    Cornelis Drebbel

    Dutch engineer and inventor

    Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel[1] (Dutch pronunciation:[kɔrˈneːlɪˈɕaːkɔpsoːnˈdrɛbəl];[a] 1572 – 7 November 1633) 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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    Cornelis Drebbel was born in Alkmaar, Holland in an Anabaptist family in 1572. After some years at the Latin school in Alkmaar, around 1587, he attended the Academy in Haarlem, also located in North-Holland.

    Teachers at the Academy were Hendrik Goltzius, engraver, painter, alchemist and humanist, Karel van Mander, painter, writer, humanist and Cornelis Corneliszoon of Haarlem. Drebbel became a skilled engraver on copperplate and also took an interest in alchemy.

    In 1595 he married Sophia Jansdochter Goltzius, younger sister of Hendrick, and settled at Alkmaar. They had at least