But a good deal of excitement had been stirred up in the city by the prospect of Robert Fulton’s strange and improbable steamboat making its maiden voyage to Albany. This was not the first ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Kirkpatrick Sale explains that while Robert Fulton did not invent the steamboat, his knowledge of machinery and an ability to incorporate the ...

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 ...

Yet scarcely more people today know Robert Fulton, the man who made the steamboat work, than know his new biographer, Kirkpatrick Sale. As "The Fire of His Genius" makes clear, such ignorance is ...

On a return tour of Monticello last week, the Scribbler spotted a small engraving of Robert Fulton ... enterprise. So Fulton gets primary credit for beginning a successful steamboat operation ...

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 ...

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 ...

Source: Wikipedia Commons. On August 17, 1807 Robert Fulton piloted his first steamboat up the Hudson River to Albany. A sketch of Robert Fulton done after the Clermont’s historic run.

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 ...

The author explained that Robert Fulton’s North River steamboat, that made a successful four-day round-trip to Albany, ushered in the Industrial Revolution and transformed nineteenth-century ...