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.

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 ...

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 ...

ROBERT FULTON was both a prophet and a statesman, but he was not the investigator of the steamboat. Fulton simply took the products of mechanical genius up to his time, combined them, and set them ...

Mr. Robert Fulton Ludlow has established what he terms ... the inventor of the steamboat. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

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.

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 ...

While Robert Fulton is credited for the invention of the steamboat, Lexington resident Edward West received his patent for the steamboat engine a year before Fulton did. Born in Virginia ...

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