For that was the day an American inventor, Robert Fulton, received a patent for his steamboat. Born in small town Pennsylvania, Fulton had first launched his steamboat, the Clermont, in 1807 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Inventor of the first successful steamboat and arguably the first ever practical submarine, American engineer Robert Fulton was one of the profession’s more colourful characters Robert Fulton was born ...

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.

It was not claimed that Fulton was the actual inventor of the steamboat, but it is claimed ... KOro TO TTHE MEMtoORY OF ROBERT TOTOW. Born 1765. Died 1815. By THE AMCAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ...