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The next year, however, John Fitch and Robert Fulton received a patent for their larger vessel. In 1806, Fitch and Hudson successfully sailed their steamboat, The Clermont, up the Hudson River.

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, the town ...

THE STEAMBOAT PIONEERS.; Nicholas Roosevelt, Robert Fulton, and Their Share in the Work. Share full article J.H. MORRISON April 23, 1905 ...

Most notable among the recent discoveries are two—authenticated this summer—belonging to 19th-century steamboat magnate Robert Fulton. The papers, dating from 1809 and 1811, are Fulton’s own ...

The first commercially successful steamboat, Robert Fulton’s Clermont, plied the Hudson River starting in 1807. (The exhibition includes two drawings, below right, for Fulton’s steamboat ...

She urged cities to reweave isolated housing developments into the urban fabric, strengthening neighborhoods in the process. Fulton & Elliott–Chelsea’s redevelopment represents a win for Jacobs’s ...

What was going on had been going on since 1807, when Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat — sometimes incorrectly called the Clermont — made its first run from New York to Albany, proving the ...

This article was originally published with the title “Robert Fulton and the Steamboat” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 80 No. 3 (January 1899), p. 37 doi:10.1038 ...

News Published: 26 December 1936 Twelve Notable American Inventions Nature 138, 1088 (1936) Cite this article ...

On the banks of the Hudson one day in 1807, crowds gathered to watch Robert Fulton, an artist-turned-engineer, show off his steamboat. They called it "Fulton's Folly." Last week in ...