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

Bowhead whales, denizens of the Arctic Ocean, are revealed as exceptionally long-lived mammals, potentially reaching ages ...

My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...

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 ...

It’s that dark side, usually cloaked by legend, that dominates Ron Chernow’s massive new biography. Following on his popular ...

64. Tour the stone house just south of Quarryville that is the birthplace of famed steamboat inventor and Lancaster County native Robert Fulton. 65. Learn about early Pennsylvania German life at ...

Tom Lee, a Black levee worker, heroically rescued 32 passengers from a capsized steamboat in the Mississippi ... demonstrating the qualities of the invention." More notably, on May 28 of that ...

A Necropolis is a mere depository for dead bodies,” Douglass wrote. “Green-Wood,” on the other hand, implied “verdure, shade, ...

To the Editor of The New York Times: The inventor of the steamboat was James Rumsey, born in Maryland in 1748, and afterward a citizen of Virginia. It may be interesting in this connection to turn ...