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	Robert Fulton, Hudson River Steamboats, and the Clermont Steamboat
		Robert Fulton died in February, 1815, the result of exposure, and his death was mourned as a national calamity.
		Robert R. Livingston, Jr Robert Livingston was Fulton´s partner in the steamboat business. Livingston was a member of that extraordinary generation of American statesmen that included, among others, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, George Washington, and John Jay.
		Robert Livingston was a member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence and was sent to France by Thomas Jefferson to negotiate for the purchase of the Louisiana Territory.
	www.hrmm.org /steamboats/fulton.html (1363 words)

	Robert Fulton - LoveToKnow 1911
		ROBERT FULTON (1765-1815), American engineer, was born in 1765 in Little Britain (now Fulton, Lancaster (disambiguation)Lancaster county), Pa. His parents were Irish, and so poor that they could afford him only a very scanty education.
		In association with Robert R. Livingston, who in 1798 had been granted the exclusive right to navigate the waters of New York state with steam-vessels, he constructed the "Clermont," which, engined by Boulton and Watt of Birmingham, began to ply on the Hudson between New York and Albany in 1807.
		The privilege obtained by Livingston in 1798 was granted jointly to Fulton and Livingston in 1803, and by an act passed in 1808 the monopoly was secured to them and their associates for a period depending on the number of steamers constructed, but limited to a maximum of thirty years.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Robert_Fulton (427 words)

	Robert Fulton - MSN Encarta
		Fulton was born on a farm on November 14, 1765, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
		Demonstrated in Rouen with Fulton aboard, the Nautilus folded its mast and sails flat on the deck and, with three crew members cranking a screw, dove to a depth of 7.6 m (25 ft).
		Fulton then sailed to New York City, where Livingston had obtained a statewide steamboat monopoly on the stipulation that he would put in operation a steamboat that traveled 6.4 km/h (4 mph).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558557/Fulton_Robert.html (320 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Fulton was born in a farmhouse outside of Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1765.
		After painting Franklin's portrait, Fulton is said to have won his friendship and a letter of introduction to the artistic community of London, where he moved in 1786.
		Fulton obtained a patent for his steamboat (granted in just 42 days!) in 1809, with a second the next year for improvements thereof.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/fulton.html (861 words)

	Robert Fulton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Fulton experimented with the water resistance of hull shapes, made drawings and models and had a steamboat constructed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Fulton (1011 words)

	Robert E. Fulton Jr.; intrepid inventor; 95 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Fulton's flying car, which he named the Airphibian, was thought by its advocates to be a postwar necessity: an airplane in every garage.
		Fulton's aerial rescue system, called Skyhook, was modeled on British railway mailbag pickups and was used by the military, secretly, to grab espionage agents off the ground during the Cold War.
		Fulton is survived by his sons Rawn of Bernardston, Mass., and Travis, of Snowmass, Colo.; 10 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040516/news_1m16fulton.html (788 words)

	Robert Fulton's Steam Boat- Clermont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Fulton, Robert (1765-1815), One of the Most Obscure of Famous Men in American History, was an inventor, mechanical and civil engineer, and artist.
		Fulton went to Philadelphia at the age of 17, and was apprenticed to a jeweler.
		Fulton designed and built a steam-powered warship, Fulton the First, for the defense of New York harbor in the War of 1812, but he died before the completion of this remarkable craft.
	www.kiac-usa.com /clermont.html (863 words)

	Robert Fulton Biography \| World of Invention
		Robert Fulton, best known for his work in steamboat technology, was born in Little Britain, Pennsylvania, in 1765.
		Fulton approached the French government, then at war with England, with the suggestion that his submarine could be used to place powder mines on the bottom of British warships.
		Fulton returned to New York later in 1803 to continue developing his designs, conscious of the fact that his partner's monopoly was contingent on their development of a boat that could travel at least four miles per hour.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/robert-fulton-woi (753 words)

	Fulton, Robert
		Fulton, Robert (1765-1815) Inventor: Robert Fulton was born in Little Britain Township, now called Fulton, in Pennsylvania.
		Unfortunately, Fulton's success created many enemies for him, so that many disputed the originality of his ideas and designs, trying to rob him of the profits from his work through lawsuits and competition.
		Fulton continued to supervise the construction of other vessels, and, in 1814, he submitted plans to the Coast and Harbor Defense Committee to build a steam warship.
	www.multied.com /Bio/nn/Fulton.html (541 words)

	Steamboat Days by Fred Erving Dayton - Robert Fulton
		Robert Fulton has been generally credited with the invention of the steamboat, and passing years have fixed his preeminent position as its inventor.
		Fulton's place in history is secure because he was equipped with knowledge of the art, because he lived at a fortunate time when the world was beginning to understand its need of transportation, and because there was available to Fulton a growing number of mechanics to interpret his plans.
		Fulton cannot be dismissed as being one of a number of experimenters in this field, for his accomplishment is outstanding and the shake-down of years has made his place in history secure.
	www.ulster.net /~hrmm/steamboats/dayton/steam2-rf.html (1084 words)

	ROBERT FULTON, PENNSYLVANIA BIOGRAPHIES
		Robert Fulton is known as the inventor of the steam boat.
		Fulton was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1765, a son of Robert Fulton, Sr., and Mary Smith.
		Fulton was engaged mostly in his art, but by age 30 he had decided to pursue engineering.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/4547/fulton.html (601 words)

	AS-11
		One of FULTON's most notable wartime achievements was her rendezvous with the cruiser PORTLAND and the destroyer RUSSELL to receive 101 officers and 1,790 enlisted men who had survived the sinking of the aircraft carrier USS YORKTOWN (CV-5) which was lost in the historical battle of Midway.
		In April 1951, FULTON was recommissioned and assigned to the newly reactivated Submarine Squadron TEN at New London, Connecticut, where she resumed her role in support of the submarine fleet.
		FULTON was modernized in 1983-84 during an extensive overhaul conducted at Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut and General Dynamics, Quincy, Massachusetts.
	home.cshore.com /sbice/fulton.html (620 words)

	Catherine Barnes Historical Autographs > Robert Fulton autograph, letters, documents, manuscripts, signatures
		Best-known for developing the first successful commercial steamboat, Robert Fulton was originally a painter of miniatures who traveled from the U. to London in the 1780's to study with Benjamin West.
		Fulton returned to America late in 1806, where he had no luck interesting the U. government in his naval weapons, but where he was very successful in constructing a commercially viable steamboat.
		Here, a year and half later, Fulton is still pursuing the matter, and in a letter that presses Drinker to dispose of the land, as West clearly wished, he affords insight into the claims made by American land promoters.
	www.barnesautographs.com /pages/inventory/fulton.htm (608 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		FULTON, Robert (1765–1815), American inventor and engineer, who designed the first efficient steamboat, thus inaugurating a new era of power-driven navigation.
		Fulton was born on a farm on Nov. 14, 1765, in Lancaster Co., Pa.
		Fulton then sailed to New York City, where Livingston had obtained a statewide steamboat monopoly on the stipulation that he would put in operation a steamboat that traveled 6.4 km/hr (4 mph).
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/inventions/fulton_robert.html (301 words)

	Robert Fulton
		Robert Fulton was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on November 14, 1765.
		In 1802 Fulton contracted with Robert Livingston to construct a steamboat for use on the Hudson River; over the next four years he built prototypes in Europe.
		Fulton died on February 24, 1815, and is buried in Old Trinity Churchyard, New York City.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/art/nsh/fulton.cfm (216 words)

	Who Made America? \| Innovators \| Robert Fulton
		Although Robert Fulton did not invent the steamboat, as is commonly believed, he was instrumental in making steamboat travel a reality.
		Fulton's vision was not original; many others had entered the field, and the unfortunate inventor John Fitch had built a working steamship already.
		Fulton died of pneumonia in February 1815, having created the service that carried Americans into a prosperous future.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/fulton_hi.html (386 words)

	Robert Fulton Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Robert Fulton was born November 14, 1765, in Lancaster County, Pa. His father worked at farming, among other jobs, and died when Robert was a small boy.
		In 1786 Fulton went to London to study painting with Benjamin West, who had been a family friend and was by this time one of the leading American painters living in England.
		Fulton was convinced that science dictated a very long and narrow hull, though experience later proved him wrong.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/robert-fulton (875 words)

	Amazon.com: The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream: Books: Kirkpatrick Sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Robert Fulton is often enshrined in American history texts as the inventor of the steamship.
		Fulton is presented as a man of obsessions, whose "folly" was not the steamboat but naval weaponry, specifically a "torpedo" (what we would call a mine) and the water cannons and submarines used to deliver it.
		Fulton was plagued by weak lungs due to tuberculois and this ultimately led to his death in 1815.
	www.amazon.com /Fire-His-Genius-Fulton-American/dp/0743223217 (3144 words)

	Robert Fulton Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Robert Fulton was born in the year 1765 in New Britain, Pennsylvania, not far from Lancaster.
		In 1785, Fulton went into business for himself as a "miniature painter and hair worker." He succeeded so well that he was able to buy his mother a farm before he set off for England in 1786.
		Fulton's friend, Robert Livingston, had also returned by 1805 and had been granted a monopoly of steamboat navigation in New York waters.
	www.bronxville.lhric.org /ElementaryFolder/FifthGrade/Essays/RobertFulton/RobertFulton.htm (376 words)

	Robert Fulton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Often credited with inventing the steamboat, Robert Fulton was actually the man who put the design into practice.
		As a young man, Fulton dreamed of becoming a painter and went to Paris to study.
		Fulton and Livingston bowed out at this point, backing away to concentrate on their eastern investments.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/DETOC/transport/fulton.html (431 words)

	Fulton, Robert - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		FULTON, ROBERT [Fulton, Robert] 1765-1815, American inventor, engineer, and painter, b.
		In 1802 he contracted to build a steamboat for Robert R. Livingston, who held a monopoly on steamboat navigation on the Hudson.
		Fulton's steamship, however, was the first to be commercially successful in American waters, and Fulton was therefore popularly considered the inventor of the steamboat.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-fulton-r1.html (353 words)

	Robert Fulton
		In 1798 Fulton actively engaged in a project for the improvement of canal navigation, and in the following year obtained from the British government a patent for a double inclined plane for raising or lowering boats from one level to another on a system of small canals.
		Fulton began to turn his attention to the subject of steam navigation as early as 1793, as is shown in a letter to Lord Stanhope, dated 30 September of that year.
		Robert L. Stevens sailed a paddlewheel steamer on the Hudson only a few days later than Fulton's "Clermont." This boat was afterward taken by sea to Philadelphia, thus making the first steamship voyage on the ocean.
	www.robertfulton.org (2032 words)

	No. 1674: Fulton's Battery-Catamaran
		obert Fulton was only forty-six, and at the peak of his powers, when the War of 1812 was declared.
		Fulton called it Demologos, or "The word of the people." But the Navy called it, variously, the Fulton Steam Frigate, the Steam Battery, and Fulton the First.
		Fulton's double-hull warship eventually evolved into a series of Civil War steam gunboats with paddlewheels simply located inside.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1674.htm (568 words)

	Fulton's First Steamboat Voyage, 1807
		Fulton achieved his place in history by producing the first commercially successful steamboat.
		Fulton's success raised the curtain for the commercial development of America's waterways, particularly the Ohio and the Mississippi.
		Chancellor Livingston, whom we supposed to be one of the promoters of this new way of navigating rivers, was the only stranger with us: he quitted the boat in the afternoon to go to his country residence which was upon the left bank of the river.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /fulton.htm (838 words)

	About Fulton County
		Fulton County was formed from DeKalb County in 1853, and then consolidated with Milton and Campbell Counties in 1932.
		Fulton County lies in north-central Georgia in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains.
		The Chattahoochee River, the source of drinking water for most of Fulton County, is one of the smallest water sources in the country relative to the size of the population it supports.
	www.co.fulton.ga.us /about/about_home.html (187 words)

	Steamboats of the Hudson River
		Fulton's partner, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, persuaded the New York State Legislature to give him the exclusive privilege of "navigating all boats that might be propelled by steam, on all waters within the territory or jurisdiction of the State, for the term of twenty years.
		The act allowed Fulton and Livingston to seize any steamboat that operated without their license, and to collect a penalty for every trip made.
		It was not until the United States Supreme Court settled the dispute, known as Ogden v Gibbons (1824), that the river was opened to steamboats.
	www.hrmm.org /steamboats/steam.html (997 words)

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