H. W. Dickinson Robert Fulton Engineer and Artist London 1913 Preface Chapter I Ancestry, birth, and boyhood of Robert Fulton Chapter II Entry into the world, Paints Minatures, Leaves for England, Exhibits at the Royal Academy, Gives up painting Chapter III Projects for marine propulsion, Studies the English canal system, digging machine, patent for inclined plane, writes on canal navigation ...
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By Robert H. Thurston Dodd, Mead, and Company Publishers New York 1891 Contents: I. Old Legents - Steam in Earlier Times - James Watt II. Early Experiments in Steam-Navigation III. Robert Fulton's Early Life IV. The Artist as Engineer V. The Engineer, as Inventor, in Submarine Warfare VI. Fulton's Experiments with Steam - The Clermont VII. River and Ocean Steam-Fleets VIII. Ocean Steamers - ...
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Letter from Robert Fulton to President George Washington President Washington received a copy of Fulton's Treatise on Canal Navigation and wrote an acknowledgement to Fulton, who thereupon replied with the following letter that suggests canal navigation between Philadelphia and Lake Erie. His EXCELLENCY GEORGE WASHINGTON. LONDON, February 5th, 1797. SIR, - Last evening Mr. King presented me with ...
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