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.

“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 ...

According to the National Inventors Hall of Fame ... existing ideas and finding the ideal combination that would set his steamboat apart.” “Apart” is the appropriate word to apply to ...

“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 once a glamorous means of transport ... It was a Frenchman who invented sound recording in 1857.

PHOTOS ON INSTAGRAM, TIKTOK ALL OVER. WE HAVE BEEN ALL OVER, INCLUDING IF YOU GO TO JACKSON SQUARE, ABOUT THREE BLOCKS FROM THERE IS THE STEAMBOAT NOTCHES. IT IS ONE OF THE ICONIC THINGS TO DO.