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From the description of Account book, 1809-1814. (New York University, Group Batchload). Fulton, Robert: Clermont A replica of Robert Fulton's Clermont, the first commercially successful steamboat, in 1908. ... Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815. View the profiles of people named Robert Fulton. Robert Fulton. [Elaine Landau] -- Describes the life and work of the talented inventor and resourceful businessman, with special emphasis on his development of the steamboat. Robert Fulton was a renaissance man. Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million titles. He resided in Pittsburgh between 1807 and 1811 and built his first steamboat "New Orleans" in Pittsburgh. Starting out as a fine arts painter, he produced the world's first steamboat empire, thrusting America to the forefront of the Industrial Revolution. 145 Copy quote. In 1800, he was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to design the Nautilus, which … Other inventor books show Robert Fulton as a bit of a crackpot; this book rightly sets him in his place as a man of genius and determination. At the same time, he invented a means of raising boats on canals and a system of submarine warfare. Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million titles. Discover Book Depository's huge selection of Robert Fulton books online. Robert Fulton was an artist, civil engineer and inventor of the paddle wheel boat. Robert Fulton. Starting out as a fine arts painter, he produced the world's first steamboat empire, thrusting America to the forefront of the Industrial Revolution. George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ggbain-00005) In 1808 Fulton married his partner’s niece, … The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions … facebook; twitter; googleplus; The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality. Dream, Reality, Rags. He had three sisters—Isabella, Elizabeth, and Mary—and a younger brother, Abraham.

Get this from a library! Robert Fulton was born on November 14, 1765, to Irish immigrant parents, Robert Fulton, Sr. and Mary Smith Fulton. He even went so far as to devise a way to use an inclined plane to remove the need for locks to raise and lower ships in a canal. Robert Fulton pursued his career as an artist until, while demonstrating his art in Great Britain, he began to be fascinated by canals as a means of transportation.