The new name was in honor of Robert Fulton, the inventor and engineer credited with making steamboat travel a practical reality in 1807. His name also graced Fulton Street, where the bank had been ...

and for myself I do not see that any new evidence has been brought forward by either side to establish its claim more fully than was done when Fulton and others were protecting their steamboat ...

A LIFE of Robert Fulton, written as Mrs. Alice ... was the fourth anniversary of Fulton's famous steamboat experiment on the Seine. Chancellor Livingston, who had long been interested in the ...

This one, built by a man named Robert Fulton, was called the North River Steamboat — referring to the Hudson’s original and then-still-used English name — but is now known as the Clermont.

Edward West tested a model of the steamboat engine on the Town Branch of Elkhorn Creek in 1793, making him the first person in the U.S. to do so.

Robert Fulton's name is all over Lancaster County, but the influence of this Renaissance man stretches all over the world — from the depths of the submarine to the top of the steamboat’s ...

The Victorian era meets 19th-century American ingenuity at this steamboat-shaped hotel. Robert Fulton, one of the creators of the first successful steam-powered ship who was born near the inn ...

For generations school children learned that Robert Fulton perfected the first steamboat in 1807 and that it changed America. Certainly, Fulton’s boat, originally called the “North River ...

And the source of his suffering was a man who was hailed as one of the greatest of his day: Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat, or more precisely the creator of the first commercially ...

He may have been a collateral descendant of the Robert Fulton who designed the first commercially successful steamboat. According to one account, Mr. Fulton never bothered to check the genealogy.