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 steamboat was the first American invention of world-shaking importance,” wrote historian James Thomas Flexner in 1944. In fact, he added, it “was one of those crucial inventions that ...

“Steamboats are slow by nature ... John Stevens 3rd, an inventor who built the first U.S. steam locomotive and first steam-powered ferry. Kriegeskotte had a lifelong interest in steam power ...

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 ...

What was not fiction was Fisher’s childhood, much of it spent in Tappahannock with his grandparents whose home overlooked the town’s steamboat wharf. “We lived in front of the wharf ...

"And it's better than anything he envisioned. You wouldn't think that books about steamboats would be pretty, but these are. I'm really delighted with them." Her husband, she said, grew up at the ...

"Steamboats were built here and then steamed down the Ohio, up the Mississippi, up the Missouri River and opened the west to immigrants." Pittsburgh was a manufacturing hub that supplied the ...