As the Canadian paddle-wheel steamer Comet was pulling away from the Customs House dock in Oswego at 3 p.m. on April 21, 1851 ...

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

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 ...

The buildings’ conditions are an insult to the legacy of their namesakes: Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat; and John Lovejoy Elliott, a Progressive-era reformer and founder of the Hudson Guild ...

As the Legislature began debating the honorees in 1872, steamboat inventor Robert Fulton seemed like the early frontrunner to join Clinton. Hochul’s proposal, which was buried in her budget and ...

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931); the commercial steamboat, Robert Fulton (1765-1815); the aeroplane, Wilbur Wright (1867-1912); the airbrake for trains, George Westinghouse (1846-1916); the ...

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 Danbury ...

The Monopoly. The steamboat company of Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston (brother of Louisiana’s Governor Edward Livingston) had an 18-year monopoly over the rivers in Louisiana ...

sight 17-1/4 x 26-1/4 in.; 26-3/4 x 34-3/4 x 1-1/8 in.

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 ...

Cincinnati’s prosperity was certainly linked to the steamboat era ... the New Orleans, designed by Robert Fulton, churned down the Ohio River in 1811. On its inaugural journey from Pittsburgh ...