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Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat (also known as Clermont).
Robert Fulton, designer. On 9 March 1814, Congress authorized the construction of a steam warship to be designed by Robert Fulton, a pioneer of commercial steamers in North America. The construction of the ship began on 20 June 1814, [citation needed] at the civilian yard of Adam and Noah Brown, and the ship was launched on 29 October. [2]
Her ship's bell, from the original Clermont, was borrowed from the Hudson River Day Line's riverboat Robert Fulton (1909). [13] [14] She started sea trials along the Staten Island and Jersey shores on September 3, 1909, and proved to be faster than the Fulton's original, making about 6 miles an hour against the tide in the bay.
Robert Fulton (1765–1815) Robert Livingston (1746–1813) New Orleans was part of a business venture among Robert Fulton (1765–1815), Robert R. Livingston (1746–1813), and Nicholas Roosevelt (1767–1854) to build and operate steamboats on America's western waters, including the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. [1]
USS Dick Fulton (1862), a sternwheel steamer in service as a tender with the United States Army's Ram Fleet from 1862 to ca. 1864; Robert Fulton (1909), a New York excursion vessel built in 1909 for Hudson River Day Line and finally scrapped in 1968; Robert Fulton, a Liberty ship built in 1942
Nautilus was a submarine designed by Robert Fulton and first tested in 1800. Though preceded by Cornelis Drebbel's vessel of 1620 and the Turtle , [ 1 ] : 1–8 Nautilus is often considered to be the first practical submarine.
Five ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Fulton, in honor of Robert Fulton. United States floating battery Demologos , later Fulton , a catamaran steam frigate, launched in 1815, delivered to the Navy in 1816 and used as a receiving ship until she exploded in 1829
The second ship to be named Fulton by the Navy, a side wheel steamer, her build commenced in 1835, and she was launched 18 May 1837 by Brooklyn Navy Yard; [2] and commissioned 13 December 1837, Captain M. C. Perry in command. She was often called Fulton II. Fulton I was the renamed floating battery Demologos.