Getting from A to B is important, but who says you can't experience a bit of beauty when using public transport? These subway ...

While Robert Fulton is credited for the invention of the steamboat, Lexington resident Edward West received his patent for the steamboat engine a year before Fulton did. Born in Virginia ...

The city's origins date to Aug. 1, 1825, when it was officially named Fulton after steamboat inventor Robert Fulton. Originally established as the second county seat of Callaway County ...

and for myself I do not see that any new evidence has been brought forward by either side to establish its claim more fully than was done when Fulton and others were protecting their steamboat ...

Most notable among the recent discoveries are two—authenticated this summer—belonging to 19th-century steamboat magnate Robert Fulton. The papers, dating from 1809 and 1811, are Fulton’s own ...

The first commercially successful steamboat, Robert Fulton’s Clermont, plied the Hudson River starting in 1807. (The exhibition includes two drawings, below right, for Fulton’s steamboat ...

The buildings’ conditions are an insult to the legacy of their namesakes: Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat; and John Lovejoy Elliott, a Progressive-era reformer and founder of the Hudson Guild ...

As the Legislature began debating the honorees in 1872, steamboat inventor Robert Fulton seemed like the early frontrunner to join Clinton. Hochul’s proposal, which was buried in her budget and ...

What was going on had been going on since 1807, when Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat — sometimes incorrectly called the Clermont — made its first run from New York to Albany, proving the ...

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Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931); the commercial steamboat, Robert Fulton (1765-1815); the aeroplane, Wilbur Wright (1867-1912); the airbrake for trains, George Westinghouse (1846-1916); the ...

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 ...