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Robert Fulton portrait
No full textRobert Fulton (1765-1815) was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and was an accomplished artist. He moved on to designing ships for navies, including the British, French, and Americans, who found his submarine design very useful. He eventually settled on steamboats and designed the Clermont, the first commercially-viable steamboat (others had dreamed of it before, but his was the only design to be economical enough). He also constructed the first steamboat to travel on the Ohio River, known as the New Orleans. His work revolutionized water traffic, helping to move Ohioans from a subsistence to a commercial economy
Oral history interview with Robert Fulton
No full textRobert Fulton had a long career in government service and credits former Oklahoma governor and U.S. Senator Henry Bellmon for a large part of his success. Fulton talks about his background and about how he came to work for the government and in politics. He explains his career and the many different organizations, projects, and committees he has worked on over the years. He describes his involvement with Bellmon and his first impressions. Fulton discusses the work that they did together, both at the national and state levels. He mentions Bellmon's personality and work ethic and tells many stories about their time together and the impact Bellmon had on his life. He also comments on some of the more notable parts of both his and Bellmon's careers.The Remembering Henry Bellmon Collection is a series of interviews conducted with Bellmon staff members and supporters during his political career, and includes interviews with his daughters
Fulton inventore della navigazione a vapore : dramma storico in cinque parti
No full textdi Antonio Giuseppe GergotichHauptperson: Fulton, Robert, 1765-181
Letter from D. Fulton, Eutaw, Alabama, to Robert Jemison, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, November 13, 1868
No full textThis item is from the Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers. The collection spans the period from 1797 to 1960 and includes both the personal and business papers of Robert Jemison, Jr., along with papers of Robert Jemison (grandfather), William Jemison (father), Priscilla Jemison (wife), Cherokee Jemison Hargrove (daughter), and Andrew Coleman Hargrove (son-in-law), and Robert Jemison, Jr. (IV) of Birmingham (1878-1973). Included are the records of his grist and lumber mills, plantations, stage line, the Tuskaloosa Plank Road, toll bridges, ferries, postal contracts, and the North East and South West Railroad
A Robert Fulton exhibit
No full textAn exhibit of monographs by or on Robert Fulton from the Library\u27s rare book collection and two torpedo drawings by Robert Fulton that were given to the library by Robert B. Honeyman, Lehigh Class of 1920, and Mrs. Honeyman
[Letter] 1815 January 28, Trenton [to] Nathaniel Cutting / Robert Fulton.
No full textA notation in pencil at the top of the first recto leaf reads, "copy." See also other letters in the collection from Fulton.Fulton charges Cutting with writing a letter which was read before the Trenton House of Assembly, a letter which was "false and malignant evidently done and with great exactness and care to injure me and gratify Thornton Fairfax and other of my ignorant enemies; you state positively that I pirated Mr. Cartwright\u27s rope machine and sold it to you as wholly my own, this is untrue." Fulton points out that he introduced Cutting to Cartwright, and reconstructed the machine from memory, making alterations, and keeping with the patent laws of France. Fulton also states that he has Fitch\u27s papers demonstrating that Fitch "had not one exact scientific idea about a Steamboat." Fulton counters, "_I accept the war_ [underlined]. I defy you or any living being to stain my character with one unfair, ungenerous or illiberal act, towards my Friends, or of assuming to myself in any way what is not my own and I will not lose an instant, in making you answerable for a libel on my _character as a man of honor_ [underlined]." He observes that "Thornton has published your calumny in a pamphlet, and each of you shall make atonements.
Robert Fulton, S.J.
No full textTintype of Robert Fulton, S.J., accompanied by image of Fulton torn out of a journal**Former finding aid location: 119.1_37*
[Letter] [n.d.] / Rob[ert] Fulton.
No full textSee also other letters in the collection from Fulton.Fulton states that he is journeying to Washington in hopes to "get the patent laws amended as to protect mental property or diminish Lawsuits." Fulton requests that the recipient send letters "to any of your influential friends who are friendly to science and the Improvements of our country." He mentions names including Lloyd and Quincy. Artist, civil engineer, and inventor, Fulton invented a rudimentary paddlewheel to propel fishing boats when he was only a teenager; he began his career as a gunsmith and then an artist in Philadelphia. He journeyed to London where he took an interest in the Duke of Bridgewater\u27s canal projects and corresponded with Boulton and Watt regarding the steam engine, invented a useful dredging-machine to cut canals, and published his ideas in _A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation_ (1796). Fulton\u27s interests extended to the military applications of his technology; in 1810 he wrote _Torpedo war, and submarine explosions_ , using his experience inventing experimental submarines and self-propelled torpedoes for both France and Britain. In 1802, Fulton agreed to construct a steamboat for the route between New York and Albany on the Hudson River; he oversaw the building of the _Clermont_, the first of seventeen steamboats he designed
Fulton W., Robert
No full textCentro Asturiano membership record of Robert Fulton W.; Socio Number: 126214.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/asturiano_membership/2868/thumbnail.jp
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