Just a decade later, wagon trains and caravans carried ambitious settlers westward ....1815, the invention of the steamboat revolutionized ...

The steamboat wasn’t the only thing West invented. According to a 1799 Kentucky Gazette article, West, a silversmith, claimed to have found a cure for “rheumatic pains and cramps” by using ...

Edward West, an inventor and blacksmith in Lexington, created and tested the first steamboat engine in 1793. He tested the first engine on Elkhorn Creek.

During the 19th century, hundreds of steamboats traversed America’s waterways, carrying passengers faster and more luxuriously than ever before. “The steamboat was the first American invention ...

Why Robert Fulton Is Acclaimed As the Inventor of the Steamboat.; A Prophet and Statesman, He Was Also a Skilled Adapter Of Other Men's Discoveries. Share full article. Sept. 26, 1909.

The story goes that Samuel Morey sank his own steamboat, the Aunt Sally, beneath the waters of Fairlee Pond. How did he do it? As an inventor, maybe he did it methodically, boring holes into the hull.

The two steamboats are expected to make for a most unusual sight on Lake Hopatcong, ... an inventor who built the first U.S. steam locomotive and first steam-powered ferry.

Sixty-five years after Fitch invented steamboats, investors decided it was time to see if a fleet could operate on the Delaware between New Hope/Lambertville and the coal shipping port of Easton ...

The steamboats burned on our Western rivers this spring make up a long and dark catalogue On the 2d inst, another, the Sultan, was added to the list, having been consumed near St Genevieve, while ...