The Fulton City Council convened on Tuesday evening, during which several important topics were addressed, including ongoing development projects and public concerns. In an update, ...

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.

The city's origins date to Aug. 1, 1825, when it was officially named Fulton after steamboat inventor Robert Fulton. Originally established as the second county seat of Callaway County ...

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 ...

The first commercially successful steamboat, Robert Fulton’s Clermont, plied the Hudson River starting in 1807. (The exhibition includes two drawings, below right, for Fulton’s steamboat ...

The buildings’ conditions are an insult to the legacy of their namesakes: Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat; and John Lovejoy Elliott, a Progressive-era reformer and founder of the Hudson Guild ...

As the Legislature began debating the honorees in 1872, steamboat inventor Robert Fulton seemed like the early frontrunner to join Clinton. Hochul’s proposal, which was buried in her budget and ...

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931); the commercial steamboat, Robert Fulton (1765-1815); the aeroplane, Wilbur Wright (1867-1912); the airbrake for trains, George Westinghouse (1846-1916); the ...

On the banks of the Hudson one day in 1807, crowds gathered to watch Robert Fulton, an artist-turned-engineer, show off his steamboat. They called it “Fulton’s Folly.” Last week in Danbury ...

The Monopoly. The steamboat company of Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston (brother of Louisiana’s Governor Edward Livingston) had an 18-year monopoly over the rivers in Louisiana ...

sight 17-1/4 x 26-1/4 in.; 26-3/4 x 34-3/4 x 1-1/8 in.