You can Google History of Swimming and click on the third link
(wikipedia) and it gives you quite a bit of information about how
swimming was invented.
I found it quite amusing......
. :)
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David Frank Robertson has written:
'The history and development of men's intercollegiate swimming
in the United States from 1897 to 1970' -- subject(s): Swimming,
College sports, History