Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton is popularly, if inaccurately, considered the inventor of the steamship. Born in Pennsylvania, he began his career as an artist, painting mostly portraits (Benjamin Franklin sat for him in… More »
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Robert Fulton steel engraving Click Here; ... Smith, in his catalogue of portraits, catalogues a fancy picture of Lady Jane Grey, painted by Fulton about 1793. Fulton's life has been written by Cadwallader D. Colden (New York, 1817), and by James Renwick in Sparks's "American Biography."--
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Robert H. Thurston ... III. Robert Fulton's Early Life ... Robert Fulton: His Life and its Results...
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Robert Fulton's Early Life ... ROBERT FULTON, artist, engineer, mechanic, inventor, prophet, and statesman, was a genius of the first magnitude. His later fame is, as in so many such cases, based rather upon what became most familiar in his career than upon the real capacity and talent of the man.
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Robert Fulton and His Life's Work; A summary of Robert Fulton's life and the introduction of steamboats on the Hudson River; Scientific American, September 25, 1909...
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Robert Fulton Engineer and Artis ... ; By Robert W. Thurston, New York, 189 ... CHAPTER 3 Robert Fulton's Early Life...
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ROBERT FULTON, a celebrated American engineer and inventor, was born near Lancaster in Pennsylvania, in 1765. When a mere child, he manifested that taste for mechanics which he cultivated with so much success in after life.
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Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was a U.S. engineer and inventor, who was widely credited with developing the first steam-powered ship marked as a commercial success. ... Robert Fulton was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He may have become interested in steamboats in 1777 when (at the age of...
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Title: Robert Fulton: His Life and Its Results ... Author: Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 ... Subject: Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815...
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