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

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 ...

64. Tour the stone house just south of Quarryville that is the birthplace of famed steamboat inventor and Lancaster County native Robert Fulton. 65. Learn about early Pennsylvania German life at ...

Tom Lee, a Black levee worker, heroically rescued 32 passengers from a capsized steamboat in the Mississippi ... demonstrating the qualities of the invention." More notably, on May 28 of that ...

To the Editor of The New York Times: The inventor of the steamboat was James Rumsey, born in Maryland in 1748, and afterward a citizen of Virginia. It may be interesting in this connection to turn ...

In the same year he was in correspondence on the subject of building a steamboat for Russia ... "He was not only an inventor," says Mrs. Sutcliffe, "he was also a reformer, & statesman, and ...

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion will shock anyone who knows Twain only through his writing, in which the ...

plans and drawings from steamboat inventor Robert Fulton. Leighton was also deeply interested in the Wilkie's condition and future. When the historical society received a $20,000 grant in 1980 to ...

The inventor concluded he would try his own device ... too much attention cannot be bestowed upon them. The steamboat and railroad are fast revolutionizing the world ; but it is not to be supposed ...