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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).
Portrait of Robert Fulton is an 1806 portrait painting by the Anglo-American artist Benjamin West depicting the American inventor Robert Fulton. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] West was an American-born artist who had emigrated to London, where he enjoyed success with his history paintings and portraits.
Nautilus was designed between 1793 and 1797 [1]: 36 by the American inventor Robert Fulton, then living in the French First Republic.He unsuccessfully proposed to the Directory that they subsidize its construction as a means to ensure French naval dominance.
Fitch's idea would be turned profitable two decades later by Robert Fulton. Fitch had also received a patent in 1791 from France, and in 1793, having given up hope of building a steamboat in America, he left for France, where an American investor, Aaron Vail, had promised to help him build a boat there.
The painting was commissioned by Bestland in anticipation of the engraving, but Singleton may may have hoped it would be purchased as a commemoration by the academy, which had celebrated its twenty fifth anniversary in December 1793. In fact it was not exhibited there until 1822 and was only acquired when Philip Hardwick gifted it in 1861. [6]
Robert Fulton is a marble sculpture depicting the American engineer and inventor of the same name by Howard Roberts, installed at the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. The statue was gifted by the U.S. state of Pennsylvania in 1889. [1]
Fulton Burley (1922–2007), Irish-Canadian performer; Fulton J. Redman (1885–1969), American politician and newspaper editor; Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979), Sainthood candidate and American Archbishop and media personality; Fulton Kuykendall (born 1953), American former footballer; Fulton Lewis Jr. (1903–1966), American radio broadcaster
James Rumsey (1743 – December 21, 1792) was an American mechanical engineer chiefly known for exhibiting a boat propelled by machinery in 1787 on the Potomac River at Shepherdstown in present-day West Virginia before a crowd of local notables, including Horatio Gates.