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.

Why Robert Fulton Is Acclaimed As the Inventor of the Steamboat.; A Prophet and Statesman, He Was Also a Skilled Adapter Of Other Men's Discoveries.

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 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.

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 ...

A 1909 replica of the North River Steamboat, later known as the Clermont, sits at anchor. The steamboat built by Robert Fulton launched in 1807, carrying passengers New York City to Albany.

For generations school children learned that Robert Fulton perfected the first steamboat in 1807 and that it changed America. Certainly, Fulton’s boat, originally called the “North River ...

Peer past the signage covering its elegant facade and you can catch a pair of eyes staring out from above the entrance to 815 Flatbush Avenue. Above the bust is a medallion depicting a steamboat, ...