On August 17, 1807 Robert Fulton piloted his first steamboat up the Hudson River ... Hudson’s River was 150 feet long, 13 feet wide, drawing 2 ft. of water, bow and stern 60 degrees: she ...

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

A LIFE of Robert Fulton, written as Mrs. Alice Crary ... documents, and original drawings of Fulton of inestimable value as tracing the progress of steam navigation and Fulton's arduous labors ...

Robert Fulton's name is all over Lancaster ... Fulton developed and marketed a steamboat, painted works of art, designed a submarine for Napoleon, configured canals in the U.S. and patented ...

1786 After buying his mother a farm in Hopewell Township in western Pennsylvania, Fulton sails to London, where he studies art ... A steamboat built by Fulton and financed by Robert Livingston ...

An exact reproduction of Robert Fulton's first steamboat, the Clermont ... her sides are 18 feet apart and her hull is 7 feet deep, drawing 2 feet of water. Her sides go down almost straight.

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 ...

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 ...

The Albany Institute of History and Art is commemorating the bicentennial of Fulton's ... State Chancellor Robert Livingston. Livingston contracted him in 1804 to create a steamboat to sail ...

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 ...