Robert Fulton changes the course of transportation history when his first successful commercial steamboat makes it's first voyage from NYC up the Hudson River.

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: February 9th, 1811, 203 years ago today . . . a perfect day for blowing off steam. For that was the day an American inventor, Robert Fulton ...

MONDAY, Aug. 17, 1807, was another hot summer day in New York City, and most of the women of fashion on the Hudson River pier, arms linked to laced and ruffled gentlemen, had their pastel parasols … ...

Robert Fulton. Kirkpatrick Sale explains that while Robert Fulton did not invent the steamboat, his knowledge of machinery and an ability to incorporate the inventions of others into his own work ...

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does ...

Robert Fulton Ludlow has established what he terms "The Fulton Museum" -- a collection of relics more or less intimately connected with the life of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat.

On a return tour of Monticello last week, the Scribbler spotted a small engraving of Robert Fulton. He wondered why the image of the Lancaster County-born innovator was hanging in the magnificent ...

The Victorian era meets 19th-century American ingenuity at this steamboat-shaped hotel. Robert Fulton, one of the creators of the first successful steam-powered ship who was born near the inn, ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Robert Fulton and the Steamboat ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 80 No. 3 (January 1899), p. 37 doi:10.1038 ...