The steamboat, an oft forgotten part of our past, became the most important means of transportation for the state. Most everyone remembers studying the miraculous invention of the steamboat by Robert ...
"A history of the steamboat contributions of William Henry, James Rumsey, John Fitch, Oliver Evans, Nathan Read, Samuel Morey, Robert Fulton, John Stevens, and others." ...
On the banks of the Hudson one day in 1807, crowds gathered to watch Robert Fulton, an artist-turned-engineer, show off his steamboat. They called it “Fulton’s Folly.” Last week in Danbury, Conn, the ...