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 ...

“The steamboat was the first American invention of world-shaking importance,” wrote historian James Thomas Flexner in 1944. In fact, he added, it “was one of those crucial inventions that ...

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 ...

“Steamboats are slow by nature ... John Stevens 3rd, an inventor who built the first U.S. steam locomotive and first steam-powered ferry. Kriegeskotte had a lifelong interest in steam power ...

"Steamboats were built here and then steamed down the Ohio, up the Mississippi, up the Missouri River and opened the west to immigrants." Pittsburgh was a manufacturing hub that supplied the ...

Some capsized in storms; others ran aground, especially before the invention of modern navigation ... the 1845 disaster involving two sidewheel steamboats, the Swallow and the Rochester.